Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:39:13 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: "Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.de" <jhs@jhs.muc.de> Cc: alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>, dave bartels <dkbart@nwrain.com>, freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Word .doc format Not wanted. Message-ID: <20011108103913.A59220@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <200111081136.fA8BaJ001848@jhs.muc.de>; from jhs@jhs.muc.de on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:36:19PM %2B0100 References: <ml@db.nexgen.com> <200111081136.fA8BaJ001848@jhs.muc.de>
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:36:19PM +0100, Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.de thus spoke: > "alexus" wrote: > > post in whatever format you want > NO ! Wrong ! Only encourage posting in formats acceptable to > FreeBSD.Org list mandate & many FreeBSD readers, EG publicly > defined formats: Ascii (or HTML if you must). Even html is a pain for us who live in a text environment. > > just keep in mind most of the recruiters here prefer .doc or ascii > No ! Do Not __just__ keep that in mind ! ... > To see official policy on what content & format is allowed on any > freebsd.org list, try EG > echo "info freebsd-jobs" | mail majordomo@freebsd.org > > other then that the more complicated format you'll do the less > > people will see your resume > If people dump .doc on our list, not only will they force many of > us to waste bandwidth on auto download, many perhaps most will > just delete unread. Please discourage anyone from excreting .doc > format on FreeBSD.Org lists ! If I get a .doc format file that feel I must read, I must move it to a Windows machine - which is used about 2% of the time - if I need to see more than the plain text - which I can get through 'catdoc' in the ports tree. All formatting gets lost in that. Most of the time the .doc just gets deleted. I rarely use the machine but our telco DSL provider sends us customer lists/billing in Excel so it's only the truly important things that see the light [or is that the dark] of MS. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-jobs" in the body of the message
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