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From: John Reid <jkr@rl.ac.uk>
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Subject: Use of Word to distribute documents
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Word is currently used to distribute some SC22 documents and I am
objecting. Here is a short paper for the meeting in Japan in September.
Does anyone have any comments?

John.

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Proposal: That SC22 cease to use Word for document distribution

                John Reid, WG5 Convenor

Word is not a standard and is unsafe (it provides a mechanism for
the import of viruses). It is not readily available to those running
systems other than Microsoft's. Marisa Peacock reports that she can
easily circulate documents in HTML or PDF instead.