Re: Abiword files blocked by Microsoft Outlook Web Access

Thanks everyone for the great feedback. I agree that it is most
likely not intentional. I tried replicating the problem today with
the original and other .abw files and so far all of them have been
received fine. The IT department was notified of my problem yesterday
morning, so someone may have fixed it by now or it might have just
been something else about my original email. I still haven't got any
information out of the department though. I'll try again tomorrow
morning. If nothing else, being a student journalist teaches you the
value of persistence.

Even if the blocked file isn't worthy of coverage, I think I will
still write about Open Source software for my next piece. After
discussions with other students, reporters and editors during the last
two days, I discovered how few (actually, none) of my peers had any
concept that this kind of software existed. Looking at what the
college pays for MS licenses is a great idea for a long term story
also. I might look into that over the summer when I have time to
seriously look over budgets. Thanks Alan.

Thanks again and I'll update if I get learn anything interesting.

Courtney Farr

On 4/11/06, Mark Richardson <mrichard@usc.edu> wrote:
> Another angle on the issue of file-type diversity:
>
> No doubt Alan and Ryan are right about the cause of this glitch--a mere
> configuration oversight. Still, the event should be the occasion for some
> speculation about what's going on in the schools. For a *long* time I've been
> making noise about open-source software at the university where I teach
> writing. You'd think some lively discussion would ensue at that kind of
> place, but I've found the response to be deafening silence.
>
> Over at DistroWatch <http://distrowatch.com>, some discussion about schools,
> libraries, etc., converting entirely to Ubuntu suggests ideas that might leak
> into the mainstream. Maybe there's a story here for an enterprising young
> journalist (??).
>
> --Mark Richardson
>
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Received on Wed Apr 12 01:12:19 2006