On 21/01/2008, Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:47:36 +0200 > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > Not be a zealot or anything, but I thought that the regular readers of > > this list might like to know that today I withdrew my membership from > > my university's Green (environmental) club because they insist upon > > sending mail as word documents. I told them that there was no sense in > > them sending me messages that I simply could not open, and that > > escalated into "deal with it, open source zealot". So I decided not to > > deal with it. > > > > Tis easier to bring about change from within than outside. > > Taking into account that the .doc files won't open in OO.o tell them > that you need to print it onto trees at uni to read at home.
That's great, considering the party that we are dealing with. I wish I had though of that. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide > Ask them should a political group be fostering the digital divide? Are > they an elitist group? Then if the response is inadequate bump the > discussion up the environmental scale to Greenpeace or your conservation > ministry. Somewhere someone should have a policy on the digital divide > and they can bring pressure to bear from above. I will do that. Excellent. > I bet you did your share of the antagonism, hmmm? I always do :) Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
