Annamalai Gurusami said on Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:01:50PM +0530,:
send them a note stating that I don't have MS Word software, but that I am sending in RTF format, which can be viewed in MS Word. To my surprise, most of them reject such resumes.
I once received a spam resume in .doc format. I opened it in OO.o and antiword. Wonder of wonders - antiword showed much more info, which was obvously embarassing to the sender duly marked as deleted. Probably, recruiters know that, and want to find out what you deleted from your resume.
But then, you could simply have renamed the file to .doc. Think this trick will work. A better alternative is not to respond to such postings. Especially if the call is for a free software related job!!!