Re: Another mailing list idea

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

I should have included this;
John

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It turns out that Word 2000 documents, when opened by previous
versions of Word (such as Word 98), reconstitute all the text ever
typed in the document! The older versions of Word know nothing of Word
2000's penchant for holding onto old text, so the older versions merge
the deleted text right into the latest prose and display it to whoever
happens to get your final draft.

Think about that for a minute. Anyone can read all your prior drafts,
all the root documents from which you cloned others, and all the hasty
things you cast in fontcrete but then had the presence of mind to
delete from the final version.

Microsoft has not commented.
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>WOW - that is TRULY scary !!! This would give HR and R&D, etc. departments
>NIGHTMARES !!!
>Chuck

jpcarr@tredegar.com wrote:


>
> As the first anecdote on the proposed list, I offer the below.  It was a
> part of a news letter I get.   Ya, gotta read it.
>
> Ya know,  MS should have stuck with their usual tactic of have the output
> of their new version of their product unusable by older versions.
>
> John
>
> 1. MICROSOFT SPREADS THE WORD -- TOO MUCH
> Many users of Microsoft Word 2000 have noticed an annoying phenomenon
> -- their documents keep getting bigger every time they're edited. Even
> deleting the entire content of a document doesn't reduce its size.
> Microsoft recommends using "Save As" to re-save an oversized document
> into another file, which then reduces the size back to a respectable
> number of bytes.
>
> One day, not long ago, a hapless Word 2000 user reported to this
> editor that he had learned the hard way why Word documents stay so
> large -- they retain all the text you ever typed in that document. He
> discovered this when a potential employee called to ask why the salary
> offer he received was less than that offered to another applicant for
> a similar job. The Word users had done what we all do -- cloned a
> letter from another similar letter -- never suspecting that Word 2000
> would betray them.
>


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