I normally apologise for adding to gratutous email polution but not this time. I had nothing to do with any posting on this issue. I gave clear (and I believe sufficient) reasons for not interfering with the format of a document belonging to someone else when I posted on an entirely separate issue I though to be of importance to the commercial use of the New Zealand Internet. I take very strong personal exception to the tone of the communication from Chris Wedgewood. Frank March Specialist Advisor IT Policy Group, Ministry of Commerce, PO Box 1473, Wellington, New Zealand Telephone: +64 4 474 2908; Fax: +64 4 473 7010

-----Original Message----- From: Chris Wedgwood [SMTP:chris(a)cybernet.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 6:31 PM To: Andy Linton Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Appeal to end-users regarding IP address aggregation

On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 04:29:11PM +0000, Andy Linton wrote:

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Let's try an analogy here. It looks like the Nazis are winning, let's all join the local fascist party, collaborate and learn German.

Me, I prefer to remain part of the resistance. (;-)

Umm... I wasn't clear, hence you missed my point.

I'm not saying you _should_ use anything at all to view .doc files (I hate 'em myself too), I was just suggesting a mechanism for doing so if you wanted too.

Anyhow, I'm none to happy about them myself (in theory I can read them with various tools, but I choose not to because its all too much effort) and if Frank March or indeed anyone else doesn't feel like converting these files to a more appropriate format -- could the please not post the whole fu^H^Hthing (over 100k) to the mailing list?

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