Re: Re: Digest Number 193

From: mayhem <meurtre_at_earthlink.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:34:35 -0700

>>> 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.

That doesn't work for me. Of course, a good deal of the time I answer
from my e-mail program. So if >'s are needed, I have to cut and then
paste as a quote.

>>> 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.

I have found those delete-able--the pix don't usually show up in my e-mail
program anyway.

>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.

I've always thought of myself as a steel-gray strong ductile metallic
element; how did you know?

>>> 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...

And then laugh maniacally until you feel forced to join in.

>>> 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

How's it feel to know you're unlikely to see one ever again, except on
TV? Just askin'.

--J



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Received on 2003-04-25 16:34:39