Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Sat Feb 28 03:21:40 CST 2004
Hi John Yes and no. The bad thing, of course, is that it could happen - that is, however, due to the general unawareness of the Word problem. As the article concludes, the good thing is that the happening puts focus on this exact problem. Once again it shows that people often have to be burned to learn ... We have for years warned our clients against distributing anything to anybody in Word format. It is by its nature an unsound and unsafe proprietary format. At least, send the document as rtf - that removes the macro risk and many incompatibility issues but not the privacy issue - preferably as pdf or plain text - some people send simple meeting confirmations, agendas etc. as Word documents even though they contain no more that ten lines of plain text. /gustav > Gustav: > Is this bad news? > http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.12.html#subj4 > John