Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Moylan Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.editors,microsoft.public.word.newusers Subject: Re: (MS Word) ".doc" files are (sometimes?) unsafe to share Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:14:12 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <9tpk6j1rgffc73t1oe2t0a2uiqhm6rkh7v@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 06:14:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fa0751a3929231d775ade959a38c801d"; logging-data="2208749"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+OTkgdbRw0FhozDxE7F4Zx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gHcQ581wDkdCGwpyCRfEQg3y3XY= In-Reply-To: <9tpk6j1rgffc73t1oe2t0a2uiqhm6rkh7v@4ax.com> Bytes: 2038 On 13/06/24 13:36, Steve Hayes wrote: > I send all emails in plain text, and if formatting is needed, I send > it as a faile attachment. I recently had to send a document to my uncle and a cousin, so I converted it to PDF first. It turned out that their mail provider (the same provider in both cases) rejected mail with a PDF attachment. I'm going to have to send it by snail mail. (Or perhaps it was rejected because my message was in plain text, with no HTML. I still haven't tracked down the precise cause.) Some mail providers are becoming tougher and tougher about rejecting mail for obscure reasons. (And sometimes they don't even tell the sender that the attempt failed.) Maybe we'll all have to go back to snail mail. -- Peter Moylan peter@pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org Newcastle, NSW