On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 19:06, Rob Unsworth wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 Jonathan_Pickard@scee.net wrote: > > > This signature which I saw on Kevin Waterson's mail should get the > > message across. > > > > > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > When I first saw this sig I was all for supporting the FSF in this > campaign. That was until I read the web page. I found that in part it > is self defeating, because it contains the following. > > "Receiving Word attachments is bad for you because they can carry > viruses........" > > Two paragraphs later > > "To convert the file to HTML using Word is simple......." > > Apparently the FSF oppose receiving a virus sent with a Word > document, but if the virus is sent via HTML, thats OK. > > Bill G must have laughed himself to sleep after reading that. > > The FSF will get no support from me on this one. > "Please send comments on these web pages to webmasters@gnu.org" don't just complain, do something. The author's name is also there. -- Iain Buchanan <iain@nospam.pcorp.com.au> Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
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