On 12-Dec-2002/10:30 -0600, Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:46:35AM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote: >> On 11-Dec-2002/17:11 -0600, Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >We don't even need to start the war on my not ask your users to save all >> >their documents in portable formats. Most don't know how - as far as >> >they're concerned, the native Microsoft formats are all there are. >> >> FWIW, the best way to accomplish this is to change their settings so that >> their apps automatically save in the desired formats. > >That's naive. The vast majority of us have absolutely no control over >somebody else's desktops. What if you decided to start sending me MS >Word documents? Are you going to let me change your desktop? What >about my customers?
The message said "ask your users..." not "ask your correspondants" so a sysadmin type like myself started thinking along the lines of how I might get my users to save docs in less restrictive formats. This was a language and background induced misunderstanding. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list