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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

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