Re: HTML-enabled mailing lists

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 01:46:48PM +1000, Kersti Anear wrote:
> If you need html - put up a web page!!! Or, even better, attach a word doc...

To the first sentiment, absolutely.  To the second, please, NO!

Word is a proprietary format controlled by a single vendor (and, I might add,
monopolistic, predatory, greedy vendor) and is only intelligible to people
running proprietary software.  Its use on the 'net is contrary to the entire
spirit of open standards that built the Internet -- and in fact, the
existence of disparate formats like Word, WordPerfect, etc., is one of the
motivating factors for formats like HTML and PDF.

Not to mention that a single page of text in Word occupies a *lot* more
space than its ASCII text equivalent.

So please, no proprietary-format attachments!

---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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