Re: [Lilux-info] Fwd: Postini Transaction Report for Plan-Net s.a. - Lilux-info

7 Nov 2008

Excel is a proprietary, secret format specific to a given software, a
given vendor, a given operating system.
It's exactly the point of my mail. Please *_READ IT_*.
Professional companies (as Nortel, AT&T, Cisco, Google, Sun
Microsystems, ...) only use standard formats. Excel *IS NOT A STANDARD
FORMAT*.
I don't use neither Microsoft operating systems, neither Ms-Office
suite. I have no reasons to switch from a modern efficient software
suite that respects the published ISO standards (as ASCII, OpenDocument,
HTML, CSV, ...) to fall into an expensive, unsafe and inefficient system
as Ms-Office on Windows just to be able to read your mails. Exchanging
informations requires a common standard, and MS-Office file format is
not standardised, neither even published, and consequently not
interoperable.
I can't do anything with a Ms-Office Excel file, exactly as you probably
couldn't do anything if I sent you an AutoCAD 2008 file.
Norna Cash a écrit :
...
  Here is an Excel version.  Please let me know if you
have any issues
 with it.
 Regards,
 Norna Cash
 Google
 650-214-2576
 2008/11/5 Brent Frere &lt;brf(a)plan-net.lu <mailto:brf@plan-net.lu>>
     I received you mail, but unfortunately, I can't open the
     attachement, as it is in proprietary secret format.
     Please use stadardised, published, interoperable, portable formats
     as OpenDocument
     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_standardization>, PDF
     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf>, HTML
     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html>, CSV
     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values> or even
     ASCII <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII> if you want to be read.
     I advice you OpenOffice
     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org> as free and portable
     tool to produce those various formats. It is downloadable for
     almost any platform from http://www.openoffice.org
     <http://www.openoffice.org/>
     If you are using Ms-Office, the Office2007 SP2 provides an export
     function in the interoperable, standardised format OpenDocument.
     For older releases, Sun Microsystems provides /gratis/ a plugin
     that allows also exportations in this format.
     Here are some links to articles to explain my position.
     Google to Support OpenDocument
     <http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-to-Support-OpenDocument-29601.shtml>
     http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.html
     http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Please_don%27t_send_me_Microsoft_Word_docu…
     http://www.rfc1149.net/documents/whynotword.html.en
     http://www.efn.no/word-nothanks.let
     Thank you for re-sending me this document in a readable format.
     Norna Cash a écrit :
      Mr Frere,
     Attached please find a statement of account for open items due
     Google for your email security product.  Please let me know if
     you have any questions, or if you need any further information to
     expedite payment on the amounts due.
     Best regards,
     Norna Cash
     Google
     650-214-2576
     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
     From: &lt;postini-collections(a)google.com
     <mailto:postini-collections@google.com>>
     Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:23 PM
     Subject: Postini Transaction Report for Plan-Net s.a.
     To:
     Cc: ncash(a)postini.com <mailto:ncash@postini.com>
     Attention Accounts Payable:
     Please find attached your Postini Transaction Report.  If any of
     these items are past due, please pay them as soon as possible
     according to the instructions on your most recent invoice. Should
     you have any questions or require anything else to secure
     payment, please simply reply to this email with what you need and
     a representative will assist you.
     Kind Regards,
     Postini Collections Team      --
 
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