Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Content Format

[Imran Ghory]

On 26 Jan 2001, at 15:58, Mike Warren wrote:

> "Imran Ghory" <address@hidden> writes:
> > On 26 Jan 2001, at 15:02, Mike Warren wrote:
> > > Bob Dodd <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > > > People should be able to submit the content (not the header info
> > > > necessarily) in any well-known, well supported content format.
> > > > If particluar catalogs/filters prefer certain file formats for
> > > > presentation, [..]  I would argue that you *must* preserve the
> > > > original submission though: the author (and others) may need to
> > > > update the submission.
> 
> > > If people would like to make use of converters on their Word
> > > documents before submission, that's fine. If you're seriously
> > > advocating that the GNE actually store Word documents, then I
> > > can't agree. I also don't think we should accept Word documents as
> > > a submission format.
> 
> > GNE could just accept Word documents and convert them into whatever
> > format we wish to use and store them in that format.
> 
> We could. I don't think that's a good idea.

Why ?

Imran