The anti-MS Word and Power-point signature tagline.

[Alex Snow]

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what would be really great would be if word could export something 
like linuxdoc sgml...therefore we could chose what format we wanted to 
see it in.

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:42:02AM +0100, Toby Fisher wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> As many of you do, I used to use the tag line about not sending Word or 
> Ppt files, however I've discovered a rather unfortunate side-effect, and 
> was wondering if it's afflicted anyone else.
> 
> I have to take delivery of quite a lot of docs from people who use MS 
> Office, and after seeing my signature, they try to be kind by sending me 
> an rtf document.  At least with a Word doc, you can do:
> 
> cat foo.doc |strings |less
> and get pretty much all of the text together and it's readable; but what 
> the *#@! do you do about an rtf file which is much bigger, and has loads 
> of crap between all the words?
> 
> Just wondering.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> p.s. you'll notice I've removed it now, not least because I now have a 
> Windows lap top that was paid for.
> 
> 
> -- 
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