Dear Colleagues
I agree with Mr French!
Big storm in a sewing thimble.
Let get back on track to more important issues.
Warm regards
Eligio Palcich
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>
> Aren't we getting off, or rather not on, to the topic?
>
> It all tends to read like a kindergarten brawl, not like some responsible
> learned person discussing something.
>
> When will the discussion begin? I have just joined the group, so maybe it is
> always like this.
>
> Peter French BEd MAcc MEd
> [log in to unmask]
> Doctor of Education Candidate
> Graduate School of Education
> Latrobe University -
> http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/gse/
> Bundoora, Australia
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hansel <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 12:39 PM
> Subject: Re: discussion - attachments - duplication
>
>
> ><MyRant>
> >Most of the length of this paper is the garbage MS-word insists on
> >stuffing into documents. I stipped it to the text and got something like
> >13K. TEXT DOCUMENTS TEND TO BE MUCH SHORTER THAN THEIR NATIVE FORMAT
> >BRETHREN. Of course, they lose formatting information and don't look
> >"pretty." (Plain text documents in non-commercial word processor formats
> >tend to be much shorter than Word docs. Especially word processors that
> >use markup approaches. Wonder why that is.)
> >
> >Now all the bandwidth generated by these rants could have been avoided
> >either by distribution of the text document in the first place, rather
> >than two (!) copies of the Word native format document or by posting it to
> >an ftp or http site and publising the URL. For someone who will not use a
> >dangerous piece of software like Word one must strip the garbage, have
> >access to the plain text version, or have access to a post script, rtf,
> >or pdf version (or other open standards format).
> >
> >Isn't all of this obvious yet?
> >
> ></MyRant>
> >
> >Mark Hansel
> >PO Box 41
> >Moorhead State University
> >Moorhead, MN 56563
> >ph: 218-236-2039 fax: 218-236-2593
> >email: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
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