On 21/01/2008, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 00:47:36 AM +0200, Dotan Cohen > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. > > You have probably already tried the two suggestions below, but they > may be useful as general reference for similar cases in the future: > > 1) From what you wrote I understand that they don't simply send Word > attachments, they write the actual text of the email as a Word > file. If so, let them know that sending an email which is just an > empty body with a Word (or even OpenDocument) file attached is > > a) very, very rude, since the receiver has to pay much much > more to read the message if he or she has a metered > connection > b) very stupid and uneffective because messages like that > are often automatically discarded by many anti-virus email > scanners > both reasons are valid regardless of what you want or don't want to > use > > 2) Any environmental club should be one of the last places to adopt > and support Microsoft software, see the links in the "Environment" > paragraph at http://digifreedom.net/node/103 (it may even be > interesting to challenge them with those arguments publicly, on the > University newspaper or something) > > Do these guys have an English website, by the way? I'm curious. > > Marco
I did read the environmental page, but in my opinion it is not specific enough to this problem to want quotation. Also, while it does touch upon third world countries, it is very US-centric. We are in neither a third world country nor the US. I did mention to them that as environmentalists they should understand that I'm not conforming to their demands that I use MS Office because they themselves must stand up to the whims of corporations and the norms of society. They told me to take it elsewhere. I don't think that they have an English-language site, but if I come across anything, I'll point you in the general direction. 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?
