Path: csiph.com!.POSTED.csiph.com!not-for-mail From: "HenHanna" Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.editors,microsoft.public.word.newusers,alt.uasge.english Subject: Re: (MS Word) ".doc" files are (sometimes?) unsafe to share Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 19:33:30 +0000 Organization: csiph.com Internet News Service Message-ID: <6a1dde8a.0b35089303e28a21@csiph.com> References: <9tpk6j1rgffc73t1oe2t0a2uiqhm6rkh7v@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: csiph.com; posting-host="csiph.com:127.0.0.1"; logging-data="51176"; mail-complaints-to="admin@kev009.com" Cancel-Lock: sha1:YkhKtydMBAuR142+SoIzwKd7kFY= sha256:XBl17E2mm79rP0/L3HwfTNwewyjZhOk36iMWAZRFowM= X-Posted-By: csiph-web (user: HenHanna) Xref: csiph.com sci.lang:308522 comp.editors:106906 microsoft.public.word.newusers:1152 This must be a thread that I started. Peter Moylan wrote: > 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. interesting !!! > > (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