Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:26:10 -0700 From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/56883: Inadequately-documented charter for freebsd-jobs@ Message-ID: <7eu17ef271.17e@mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200309151130.h8FBUHn2085653@freefall.freebsd.org> (Warren Block's message of "Mon, 15 Sep 2003 04:30:17 -0700 (PDT)") References: <200309151130.h8FBUHn2085653@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes: > (Is PostScript really something that should be mentioned here? It has > more interchange issues than either of the others. It's a format that jobs@ readers should be able to handle, so it's OK, but it's probably better left unmentioned, if PDF is the recommended format for M$WORD users to send if they won't send plain text. > I'm also unsure > whether "open source" is a good description of these formats, but can't > think of anything better at the moment.) How about "open format". And the opposite is "closed format". PDF is both open and proprietary, IMO. I suspect that Adobe would agree. > And maybe a change of tense? > > > + Proprietary formats such as MicroSoft Word (.doc) will > > + not accepted.</para> + <para>E-mail should use open formats only -- + preferably plain text, but basic Portable Document Format, + HTML, and a few others are acceptable to many readers. + (MIME types text/plain, application/pdf, and text/html.) + Closed formats such as MicroSoft Word (.doc) will + be rejected by the list server.</para> Unless the later is not true, in which case: + Closed formats such as MicroSoft Word (.doc) cannot + be read by many readers' software.</para>
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