I have to ask in all seriousness what are they "supporting"? It's just allowing a file to be downloaded. That's it. Good thing I use hostgator. Jim Hartley wrote: > Actually, they aren't the only ones. I have a website with Freeservers, > and they won't support ".odt" files either. What is REALLY annoying, > when you hit this they say "send a message to support this" and then > when I do, they say "no, we aren't going to support that." I was going > to see about escalating it but never got around to it. > > I think a lot of the problem is that they want to check for viruses and > such but THEY DON'T KNOW HOW! And they don't want to put forth the > effort to write a virus checker for what THEY THINK is a never-used file > type. > > Some of there problems will go away as ODF gains traction ... not sure > if M$N will ever get the word, though (unless a judge tells them :-) ) > > Jim Hartley > > James Knott wrote: >> John Meyer wrote: >>> MARY RETTIG wrote: >>> >>>> I am a very new user and I'm having the following problem with using >>>> openoffice. >>>> >>>> I have created some very simple text documents using the writer >>>> program. Regardless of the file type I have attempted to save them >>>> as, this is what is happening. >>>> >>>> When I attempt to attach these files to an e-mail (MSN is my >>>> provider) I get the following message: >>>> >>>> "Access to the following unsafe attachments have been blocked". >>>> >>>> To the best of my knowledge I do not have any virus on my computer. >>>> >>>> Any ideas? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Barring MSN changing policies, the first thing I'd do is zip up the file >>> and see if it goes through that way. >>> >>> >> >> If it is the case they're actually blocking ODF files, then perhaps a >> complaint or two to the relevant regulators would be in order. I'm sure >> that judge in Europe would love to hear about it. ;-) >> >> >
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