Open document formats

[Cameron Laird]

In article <3D327322.5000006 at mxm.dk>, Max M  <maxm at mxm.dk> wrote:
>.doc is the most common file format there is outside of html/txt so 
>naturally anybody who has customers that lives in an MS world must be 
>able to read it. Which means most of us.
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>Publishing/reading in ps/pdf is rather easy for *nix types and 
>Publishing/reading in .doc is easy for Windows types, so it is very much 
>a matter of taste which format you use.
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While I'm generally among the world leaders in ascribing
differences to "a matter of taste", I must demur on this
point.  Yes, I agree conventional desktop users frequently
pass around .doc-s.  It's NEVER acceptable to me, though,
in the context of this thread, simply because .doc-s are
such agents of contagion.  They're infectious.  It's un-
safe computing.

If you substitute .rtf for .doc in what you wrote, I can
accept it.
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