Warning about the size of the NEXT message

Vesna Manojlovic wrote:
> Dear list members,
> 
> Please be aware that the next message coming to the list has a Word 
> document attachment. The attachment is rather large. 
> 
> It is not our practice to allow such huge messages to go to the list. We tried 
> to find an alternative way of posting it; however, due to lack of time we did
> not succeed. It is important that this message reaches lir-wg before the RIPE
> meeting.
> 
> The message is from Adrian Pauling, and the subject is "IP Adddressing & GPRS
> Mobile Technology deployment".
> 
> Apologies once more for not being able to approve it to the list in any other
> way.

You may want to take a look at Adri van Os's "antiword" program (for Unix,
RISC OS & BeOS) to convert Microsoft Word documents into somewhat more
reasonable formats (text and Postscript) (see http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
for details).  In this case it reduced the 600+ kbyte encoded attachment
(461,312 byte Word document) to an 8,040 byte text file:

   461312 May 15 13:48 Working_Party_Briefing_paper_GPRS_addressing.doc
     8040 May 15 13:48 Working_Party_Briefing_paper_GPRS_addressing.txt

I could really do without the extra, unnecessary ~600 kbytes in my mailbox...

James

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