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Fwd: [FSF] Why I'm rejecting your email attachment: for freedom and the good of the web!



On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 13:40, David Kramer <david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
>>>> Why I'm rejecting your email attachment: for freedom and the good of the
>>>> web!
>>>>
>>>> http://www.fsf.org/news/why-im-rejecting-your-email-attachment
>>>>
>>>> BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, March 31, 2010 -- The Free
>>>> Software Foundation (FSF) today launched a campaign calling on all
>>>> computer users to start politely rejecting email attachments sent in
>>>> secret and proprietary formats: for freedom and the good of the web!
>>>>
>>> Yeah, I'll get right on that. ?THAT will help my job search! ?No more
>>> sending or getting Word documents.
>> If the document doesn't need to be edited, then PDF is surely a
>> preferable way to send these sorts of things -- you are sure it looks
>> the way it is supposed to, on any system, and you avoid someone opening
>> the document, turning on comments, or starting an "undo" chain to see
>> what you *originally* wrote.
>
> ... says the geek. ?The recruiter says send a Word document. ?Who should
> I listen to? ?The best technical solution is not always the best
> real-world solution.
>

All rightttt, in that situation use your own discretion, but i'm sure
there are plenty of other situations where this *is* appropriate!


-- 
.danny

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