The rant is correct, but .rtf is a Microsoft format and is transparent to MSWord users. I send people who want "Word" documents in .rtf and never get a complaint.
Dan Johnson On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 02:56, Tim Churches wrote: > Andrew Ho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Tim Churches wrote: > > ... > > > Perhaps you could do a paper on the ridiculousness of **requiring** > > > submissions in a proprietary, unpublished format. > > > > The American Medial Informatics Association (AMIA) is the > > official host of Medinfo 2004. The AMIA's software is being > > used to handle paper/abstract submissions (see > > http://interview.amia.org/interview/review.tass?PID=GetIDAuthor). > > > > Perhaps this MS Word-only requirement comes from the AMIA software? > > Probably, but it is nothing short of shameful that a US medical > informatics society insists that the rest of the global medical > informatics community use US software which has to be paid for in US > dollars merely to make a paper submission. Apart from violating every > principle of promoting open data formats, it is a prejudicial against > those who cannot afford or otherwise choose not to use MS Word (or other > Microsoft products). I am sure that AMIA has the collective wit and > resources > to enable their submission processing system to handle other formats, if > > they chose to. Bah! > > Tim C > >
