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

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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