Sounds like you're having a bad day! Some thoughts inline: M. Fioretti wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 13:22:25 PM -0400, Twayne wrote: > >> Right. When sending documents, if the recipient's capabilities are >> known, the sender should try to accomodate. > > Why propagate a virus? Because that is what sending out files in > proprietary formats amounts to. Of course, there are a lot of cases > when it is simply impossible to make recipients acknowledge that they > are perpetuating a disease and change their ways, so the sender has no > other choice than try to accomodate. But it shouldn't happen unless > one has tried to do things right or knows FOR SURE, in advance, that > there is no hope. One of such cases is at the bottom.
Off base: Recommendation was, The Sender doing the accomodating is exactly the opposite: Sending files in formats the other end CAN read. ANY file going by attachment might be dangerous if it's unexpected and the source unknown. I routinely accept attachments from people I know when they advise me when they will be coming; otherwise I simply contact them first to see if they actually sent it. That end of the subject context is irrelevant and up to the communicators to handle. I'm at a loss to understand your whole paragraph. > >> It's better for one person to make mods than for possibly several to >> accomodate the one. > > very wise words in general, not in this specific case. This is exactly > the attitude that allowed Microsoft to lock everybody in (even if yes, > I do know that there is no choice in many practical cases, it's just > that one should know exactly what the problem is). Nonsense. When I communicate with more than one person it's much better for ME to make the accomodations for THEM, period, in any case I can imagine or have ever come across. It has nothing to do with MS or any entity other than the two parties involved. > >> In additon, SUN also provides an add-in for MS Office that will >> allow Word to open Writer documents to work on them. I find it >> curious no one mentioned it. > > "we wanted to send ODF files only, but the MS Office plugins for MS > Office are only available for the newest version of that suite; almost > all our correspondants have oldest versions (some still run Office 97) > so we have to stick to .doc for now..." 1. A practical person wishing to keep good communications/relationships will never push a new program or new technology on any other group. If I received a response from you in a format I couldn't accomodate, I would ask you to provide a format I CAN read. If you can't and the only alternative you surprise me with is to install a new suite of programs, it will be the end of our communications. You don't force things on anyone that you want a good relationship with. It's unreasonable and silly to expect that everyone you come in contact with is going to even have had the time to install/learn a new program, let alone whether they want to or have even ever heard of it before. And especially if you're in a one to many conversation it is about 99.99% likely to end the communication. 2. Whoever told you the SUN ODF plug in will only work in the "newest" version lied to you, you misunderstood them, or they mis-spoke. That is a patently false statement as it will run on office 2000, 2002 and 2003. You should visit the site, test it out, and teach that teacher; he's lousy at his job if you stated it correctly. 3. I cannot help that your contacts are the "oldest" versions. All that says is that YOU should be accommodating THEM and as a sidelight educating them about the possibilities of OO.o, NOT trying to force it on them. > > this is what a Public Administration officer told me at this > conference just one week ago: > > http://mfioretti.com/feltre-file-formats-and-pluralism-ict I can't help what misinformation you may have gotten from a PAO but perhaps you need to consider their credibility and learn to do clarification/verification searches of your own on such information as most would do. No, I didn't follow your link and have no intention of doing so. No reason to. HTH, Twayne > > Ciao, > Marco F. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
