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[Leon Brooks]

Irene Palmerini <irene at brilliantjobs.com> wrote:
> We are representing an exciting St. Louis firm who is need of experienced
> Java candidates.  If you are interested or know of any one please e-mail
> your resume in MS Word format to irene at brilliantjobs.com

1. Java I can do, but experienced in it I am not.

2. I live in Australia, quite some distance from St Louis.

3. I would mail the resume in HTML, which your MS Word can read.

IMPORTANT - I do not send Word documents because:

1. They are a serious security risk. The recipient can use versioning
   to "rewind" the document and find out what it looked like during the
   editing process (e.g., flippant things I crossed out, confidential
   prices or passwords I typed into it).

2. They can contain embedded nasty surprises, macro viruses and the
like.

3. They are not portable. Contrary to popular belief, not everybody owns
   a copy of Word, much less a copy of the same version that you're
   using. If I send you a Word document from a later Word than yours,
   the odds are good that you won't be able to read it. If I am running
   a Sun or Linux machine, Word does not run on it.

4. Bill is rich enough. He set out into this cold hard world with "only"
   $US 1,000,000.00 to his name and is worth about $US 90,000,000,000.00
   now (see http://photo.net/bg/ for details). I would rather support
   someone who produces reliable software, or someone who actually needs
   money, like the authors of SAIG Office.

Cheers!

-- 
Linux will not get in the door by simply mentioning it... it must win
by proving itself superior. We have no marketing department, our sales
department is an FTP server in North Carolina and our programming
department spans seven continents. Am I getting through? -- Signal11
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