Re: Digest Number 193

From: doisboid <okfreddy_at_hotmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:28:36 -0000

--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, mayhem <meurtre_at_e...>
wrote:
> > Could people please stop including the post they're replying to in
their
> > post??!!!
>
> I happen to think I'm really good about this. I even delete the
Yahoo
> promotional stuff at the end.
>

If we do you may lose our source of reference, hence the auto-use of
'>' etc.


> > Because of that, my system shuts off the email after about half
the digest.
> > So you people who post later in the day: I don't even get to read
your
> > messages. If this doesn't stop like ... now, I'm going to have to
shut off my
> > membership again.
>
> Would it help to change it to individual e-mails, so they come in
one at
> a time? After all, you could still open them all at once during a
break or
> whatever, but they wouldn't be all squished together.
>
> I'll make it easy for you: mine are brilliant. Dean and David . . .
well,
> you know. They try.
>

Time for a new system. The problem may not be the amount of text but
the Yahoo spam graphics. And do switch to individual e-mails or none
at all.

And, yes, Joy's posts are most brilliant, like zirconium, but for
diamonds hard to beat Messieurs Eadington and Marinacci.

> > Not to mention it's really hard to find the relevant new text in
amongst the
> > old.
>
> Ah, I see: with a digest you don't know where the "top" is. Sounds
annoying.
>

It's Olive - none of it is truly relevant and 10 years from now we'll
remind you of that again and again and again...

> > I of course don't mean quoting relevant portions in your own email
to rebut
> > point by point.
> >
> > I mean the pages of stuff at the end.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Good luck. We can't even get these people to wash dishes on cabin
trips.
>

That big barrage was my doing. I couldn't resist posting the Mother
Jones article about the Bush Bad Boyz. My Bad - flagellate me with a
wet noodle.

> > - Joya the grumpy pregnant chick
>
> --Joy the sleepless PMS-ey chick
>
--Ozzy Everwatchful for the young semi-naked chick
Received on 2003-04-25 14:28:41