From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Rod Gasson wrote:

> It's worse than that, a lot of people just assume that *everyone* uses Word
> for any type of doc file.
> 
> For a long time, whenever anyone sent me one of these I'd simply return them
> with a request that they resend it in PLAIN TEXT, or some other
> non-propriety format (such as RTF).

  I know someone who returns the work in staroffice or openoffice internal format.

  When the original sender asks "what the heck is this?" he
replies: "Since you 
assumed the format I could accept it in without asking first, I assumed the 
same for you- doesn't everyone use xoffice?".

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