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A friendly reminder.....

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You sent the attachment in Microsoft Word format, a secret proprietary format. This is especially bad because what you sent was just a "picture" and would have been much better sent as a jpeg file.
Distributing documents in Word format is bad for you and for others. You can't be sure what they will look like if someone views them with a different version of Word; they may not work at all.
Receiving Word attachments is bad for you because they can carry viruses (see http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/acro.html). Sending Word attachments is bad for you, because a Word document normally includes hidden information about the author, enabling those in the know to pry into the author's activities (maybe yours). Text that you think you deleted may still be embarrassingly present. See http://www.microsystems.com/Shares_Well.htm for more info.
But above all, sending people Word documents puts pressure on them to use Microsoft software and helps to deny them any other choice. In effect, you become a buttress of the Microsoft monopoly. This pressure is a major obstacle to the broader adoption of free software. Would you please reconsider the use of Word format for communication with other people?
It wouldn't hurt you to think like a fucking serial killer every once in a while - just for the sake of prevention

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sending people Word documents puts pressure on them to use Microsoft software and helps to deny them any other choice.



Kinda like having to read a really long post about the evils of using certain applications and trying to force yourself NOT to look at the avator


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Would you please reconsider the use of Word format for communication with other people?

As long as we're talking about what's bad for people...
....Would you please reconsider the use of your current avatar for communication with other people?:S
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