Subject: Re: Two suggestions for a better forum
Date: Apr 03, 2004 @ 23:28
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> Thank you all for all these truly beautiful offerings. I have beenmost
> greatly enjoying my new memberships to both your boundary
> groups, as well as reviewing both archives as I can. I find it
> satisfactory to receive the other group's highly focussed,slow
> 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
> down for some of the others, even in digest, and that you allwell.
> intend only the best for yourselves and for everyone else as
> 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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