From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 09:27:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACF816A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1665743FDD for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:27:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) Received: from localhost.localdomain (12-230-74-101.client.attbi.com[12.230.74.101](untrusted sender)) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003091516270901500l3785e>; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:27:09 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8FGQG4d017453; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:26:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8FGQABX017452; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) To: Warren Block References: <200309151130.h8FBUHn2085653@freefall.freebsd.org> From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:26:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200309151130.h8FBUHn2085653@freefall.freebsd.org> (Warren Block's message of "Mon, 15 Sep 2003 04:30:17 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <7eu17ef271.17e@mail.comcast.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/56883: Inadequately-documented charter for freebsd-jobs@ X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:27:12 -0000 Warren Block writes: > (Is PostScript really something that should be mentioned here? It has > more interchange issues than either of the others. It's a format that jobs@ readers should be able to handle, so it's OK, but it's probably better left unmentioned, if PDF is the recommended format for M$WORD users to send if they won't send plain text. > I'm also unsure > whether "open source" is a good description of these formats, but can't > think of anything better at the moment.) How about "open format". And the opposite is "closed format". PDF is both open and proprietary, IMO. I suspect that Adobe would agree. > And maybe a change of tense? > > > + Proprietary formats such as MicroSoft Word (.doc) will > > + not accepted. + E-mail should use open formats only -- + preferably plain text, but basic Portable Document Format, + HTML, and a few others are acceptable to many readers. + (MIME types text/plain, application/pdf, and text/html.) + Closed formats such as MicroSoft Word (.doc) will + be rejected by the list server. Unless the later is not true, in which case: + Closed formats such as MicroSoft Word (.doc) cannot + be read by many readers' software.