I know, sending Word (PDF, RTF, etc.) documents as attachments would be soooo much easier for everybody, right?
Alas, wrong. Critters has thousands of members and, believe it or not, not everybody uses or can read Microsoft Word documents, RTF, etc. There are people using text-only browsers, for example, or text-only email readers, and binary attachments like Word files are just so much gibberish. Some people use word processing programs that can neither read nor write Word format. RTF’s sometimes print as gibberish. Some folks can’t handle PDFs. Some can’t even handle attachments of any kind. And so on. There’s also the secondary issue of spreading macro viruses via Word-like documents, which is both (a) actually possible and (b) worrisome to people, who would otherwise choose not to participate if there was even a risk of infection. Some people (rightfully so) argue that they shouldn’t have to mold themselves to the machine by the chore of converting to text. The counter-argument, however, is that many folks (rightfully so) don’t feel they should have to mold themselves to the machine by upgra
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