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
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