From walt@meltingsand.com Mon May 22 17:55:10 2000 Received: from www.uni-comp.com (www.uni-comp.com [63.89.174.208]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA60348 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 17:55:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from walt@meltingsand.com) Received: from meltingsand.com (walt@gobi.meltingsand.com [63.89.174.250]) by www.uni-comp.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA13147; Mon, 22 May 2000 09:43:44 -0600 (MDT) Sender: walt@www.uni-comp.com Message-ID: <39296654.97F9960F@meltingsand.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:54:44 -0700 From: Walt Brainerd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Reid CC: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1795) Use of Word to distribute documents References: <200005221437.QAA59819@dkuug.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Reid wrote: > > 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. > > ......................... I objected to this years ago, with no luck, of course. With StarOffice (and others) available for free, I can now read and distribute Word documents, so things aren't so bad, but it is still obnoxious to use a nonportable nonstandard system. > > 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. -- Walt Brainerd walt@meltingsand.com Melting Sand, LLC +1-520-918-SAND 298-7074 (fax) 7660 E. Broadway, Suite 308 +1-520-918-7263 800-376-4848 Tucson, AZ 85710 USA http://www.meltingsand.com