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From: "Amanda Lee" <amanda@shellworld.net>
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Subject: Re: anti-word
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:09:00 -0500
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Amen! to that Janina!

Amanda


----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net>
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Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: anti-word


> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > Yes and if a word document is sent to you for your input and editing,
I'm
> > sure the original party would expect the thing to come back in Word
format
> > along with the built-in formatting, styles and such.  Some of this whole
> > anti Word sounds arogant to me.
>
>
> I rather think it arrogant to presume everyone wants and reads Word. I
> regard it as arrogant to presume we all pay tribute to Microsoft. I
> further regard it arrogant to treat a proprietary, non-consensus, file
> format as some kind of standard.
>
>
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