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DATE | 2004-11-15 |
FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: [marsee@oreilly.com: Word Annoyances Needed for New Book]
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From owner-hangouts-destenys-at-mrbrklyn.com Mon Nov 15 20:24:22 2004 X-UIDL: `XY!!o$n!!ZR6!!!h$#! Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id iAG1OMCA013537 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:24:22 -0500 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.12.3/Submit) id iAG1OLsv013536 for hangouts-destenys; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:24:21 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangouts-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id iAG1OL2A013531; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:24:21 -0500 Received: (from ruben-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.12.3/Submit) id iAG1OKXT013530; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:24:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:24:20 -0500 From: Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Cc: "ny . pm" Subject: [hangout] Re: [marsee-at-oreilly.com: Word Annoyances Needed for New Book] Message-ID: <20041115202420.G13065-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> References: <20041115213317.GA14488-at-panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20041115213317.GA14488-at-panix.com>; from dha-at-panix.com on Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 16:33:17 -0500 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.3 Sender: owner-hangouts-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS List: New Yorker GNU Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribe name-at-domian.com in the body to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Keywords: X-UID: 39340 Status: RO Content-Length: 1290 Lines: 43
> O'Reilly is pulling together a new book called "Word Annoyances" and, > once > again, we'd like your help! As you might guess, "Word Annoyances" > ponders > the problems, snarls, quirks, bugs, and just dumb things about Word > that > drive users nuts.
Well
It's license really really sucks. It's target OS sucks. It's security is a bummber. It's constantly changing interface sucks It's constantly changing file format, that really sucks.
Outside of that, try OpenOffice.org. or vim or emacs
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