[LINK] Press Release from Senator Lundy

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmm ... but Kate and her staff seem to improve, learn and listen ... 
unlike many others of the political persuasion. A few months back she 
was distributing press releases by PDF, and she has now changed to 
Word.

My objections to Word are pretty much the same as Grant's, with an 
added proviso ... I intensely distrust a document format that is 
tailor made to carry macro viruses. That said, it is more bandwidth 
efficient than PDF, BUT less bandwidth efficient than eMail, lists 
and/or NNTP news - which Howard ironically pointed to when commenting 
on the substance of the missive.     :)

And as further pointers to the good Senator, personally I dislike 
eMail with proprietary tags, MIME encoding or HTML formatting ... 
despite the fact that my email client, Eudora, is quite capable of 
reading and using them. They detract from the OPEN STANDARDS the Net 
is based on. They promote the idea of proprietary standards as the 
standards of the Internet. And they can be bloody irritating to those 
who aren't as fortunate as I in using a mailer capable of translating 
them.

Mmmm ... copying and pasting into a straight text eMail is definitily 
the way to go.

				Regards,

At 5:06 PM +1100 25/2/2000, Grant Bayley wrote:
>What was wrong with just pasting it into an email?
>
>I think the file name "They just don't get IT" sums up my feelings about
>people who send Microsoft Word attachments for things when a text version
>would have done the same job. I'm using an SGI Indy without Microsoft
>Word as my primary desktop machine and my secondary desktop machine right
>now is an OpenBSD machine.
>
>This document is useless to me.
>
>I hope it didn't have anything useful in it.
>
>Grant
>
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>On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Stutsel, Melanie (Sen K. Lundy) wrote:
>
>>  Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:59:39 +1100
>>  From: "Stutsel, Melanie (Sen K. Lundy)" <M.Stutsel@aph.gov.au>
>>  Subject: [LINK] Press Release from Senator Lundy
>>
>>   <<They just don't get IT.doc>>
>>
>>  Melanie Stutsel
>>  Adviser
>>  Office of Senator Kate Lundy
>>  Shadow Minister for Sport, Youth Affairs
>>  and assisting on Information Technology
>>
>>  Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600
>  > (02) 6277 3334
>  > http://www.katelundy.dynamite.com.au
>  >
>  >
>  >