Thank you all for all these truly beautiful offerings. I have been
greatly enjoying my new memberships to both your boundary
groups, as well as reviewing both archives as I can. I find it most
satisfactory to receive the other group's highly focussed,
compressed, occasional jewels as individual e-mails; and to
receive this group's incessant, interminable, and now multiple
strings of jewels by simply browsing to your home page
whenever i feel the urge. And of course, once there, i can skip
and/or dance around to my heart's content. Indeed, after some
experimentation, I would commend both of these formats as
optimal, at least for this particular enthusiast. Also, it seems
clear that some of you are really just having too much fun to slow
down for some of the others, even in digest, and that you all
intend only the best for yourselves and for everyone else as well.
In fact, I am glad some of you appear to be laughing practically
continuously now. And I just want you to know I think your
insistence on doing so may just be the last, best hope of the
human race. But . . . is it even possible to make the world stop
and laugh???
Sincerely yours,
t h e i a
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Michael Kaufman
<mikekaufman79@y...> wrote:
> I think I have seen Mike use cap and punc several
> times here - as a matter of fact I think we all have!
>
> --- Martin Pratt <m.a.pratt@d...> wrote:
> > I wholeheartedly endorse Dave's plea for BP members
> > to delete
> > unnecessary text from previous messages from their
> > postings (BP 13802).
> > Far from assisting the reader to follow the thread
> > of a discussion,
> > including lengthy unedited extracts of previous
> > messages usually only
> > serves to obscure the main message, especially when
> > the formatting has
> > been lost. Since the list has readily accessible
> > archives, there's
> > really no need to include anything from previous
> > messages except the
> > message number and possibly short extracts to which
> > you wish to respond
> > _directly_.
> >
> > There are a number of free tools available for
> > 'cleaning' email text
> > that has become filled with unwanted line breaks and
> > reply quotation
> > marks - see for example Mr Ed's Email Bracket
> > Stripper at
> > http://www.mistered.us/stripper/index.shtml.
> > Microsoft Outlook users
> > might also like to check out eClean 2000
> > (http://www.jd-software.com/eClean2000/index.html),
> > which only costs
> > US$10 and allows the user to clean up messages from
> > within Outlook with
> > just a few clicks. Please think about making use of
> > such resources
> > before hitting 'send'.
> >
> > While we're on the subject of making messages easier
> > to read, I'd be
> > grateful if Mike Donner could explain why he is so
> > opposed to the use of
> > punctuation and capital letters? Such conventions
> > exist to help the
> > reader and I am sure I am not alone in finding it
> > hard to follow much of
> > what you write, Mike. For someone who is so
> > punctilious in your pursuit
> > of points around the world, it is rather ironic that
> > you appear so
> > hostile to their use in your writing!
> >
> > m a r t i n
> >
> >
>
>
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