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Re: UPDATE



Count me in the plain text camp, too. :-)

Danny

At 12:19 PM 8/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
>In message <39941087.AA96EEEE@thinkingcat.com>, Leslie Daigle writes:
> >Hi Livia, and welcome.
> >
> >Re. the agenda -- I, anyway, would appreciate it if you could circulate
> >it in plain text format.  I don't see that Word formatting adds to them
> >substantially, and plain text is (much) smaller, doesn't require
> >launching a separate application, is easier to search through/modify
> >etc.  Other people may feel differently...
>
>No, I agree with you.  Plain text is especially useful to me, since I
>normally use Unix, and have to go through contortions to read Word
>documents.
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin

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