On 0, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2002 12:10:43 -0500 > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:46:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > | I was e-mailing a resume and the person could not open file. He said to > > use > > | word format. I wrote my resume in Microsoft works and then saved in my > > | documents and the e-mail him for AOL with attachments. If you could tell > > me > > | what I did wrong I would appreciate it. > > > > Proprietary file formats like "word format" suck. Only the creator of > > the format can actually use it, which means you must pay MS a lot more > > money to be able to do only what they will allow you to with it. > > (sure there are programs like abiword and antiword, but they only > > kinda work and tend to really mess up the formatting of some stuff) > > > > The solution is to use an Open and Free format such as "plain text". > > HTML (and its cousin XML) is also open and free. But most folks in this list > hate it like hell.
Not true, they just hate receiving *email* formatted in HTML. HTML
has its place, and email is not it.
Tom
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