On Nov 16, 2011, at 2:28 AM, Martin Rex wrote: > todd glassey wrote: >> >> Marshall Eubanks wrote: >>> >>> Should the system reject PPTX files ? If people can't read them, why >>> are we accepting them ? > > I would appreciate if that datatracker simply rejected PPTX on upload. > > It is several mangnitudes more efficient to have the uploaded simply > select a different option on save rather than to bother dozens of > consumers with having to spend hours and/or $$ to obtain a computing > environment that is capable of visualizing PPTX. I agree in principle, but I have just converted a .pptx presentation (with some animations that will be lost) into PDF. The PPTX was 250K, the PDF is 2MB. 8 times as much. I know that bandwidth is cheap and all, but I really don't like the inefficiency. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf