Re: [NTLK] receiving word attachments and sending works documents

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Oliver,

> Tell the sender about location of his file, and then tell
> him that you are *not* the experienced type of person who would be
> able to extract much more interesting data from a .doc-file.
> People do not care about there files being proprietary and full of
> trouble for others, but if they mean trouble for *them* it's all
> different instantly, and very easy to move those users to RTF or PDF.

Amen to that. I can't believe how much padding there is in a Word file now -
a blank document is 32k!

A pox on .doc attachments.

Joel.

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