[geeks] Re: [rescue] SLACKERS

[James Sharp]

> > No longer will I accept MS Office attachments.
>
>
> I regularly ask people to resend their documents as plain text. Yes, I
> know StarOffice can read them, but I don't want things in proprietary
> formats, period. You can wonderful things with HTML for formatting. It
> is a Markup Language after all.

Why do you need formatting in email at all?  text/plain works just fine
for getting the point across.