.snp wtf!

[Derek Broughton]

Carlton Noles wrote:

> Don't misunderstand MS bites and is not as readily available. My
> experience has been that more often than not people are WAY to proud of
> their formatting. I am just saying don't send the extra baggage if it
> isn't necessary. 

Not only that, but .snp isn't even usable on most older Windows systems -
and you would _have_ to have Office even on XP systems.  I wouldn't even
attempt to open something like that, I'd tell the sender to format it in
some reasonably useful way.

> If text is enough use text. 

Yeah, preferably that.

> If the format is absolutely  
> essential to the information then use pdf or what ever you wish. I have
> seen way to many messages in PDF where the only thing that mattered to
> anyone other than the sender was the information. In such cases PDF (or
> DOC or SNP or XLS)

Agreed.  I used to rail against PDF but I've pretty much come to accept it,
but there's still no reason to use it where formatting is irrelevant.  I
wouldn't send XLS files even between MS shops if all they needed were the
numbers - I'd send CSVs.  I _do_ send DOCs, to my shame :-)

> But the computer world has moved past that and now we are looking for
> files that can be read by everyone AND keep the formatting and style that
> is wanted by thesender.

only if MS decides to support Open Document Format.
-- 
derek