Subject: Re: Two suggestions for a better forum
Date: Apr 03, 2004 @ 23:28
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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thank you goddess for this vote of confidence

& i dont think it possible to actually make the whole world
or even anyone at all
do anything
since we are all equally at cause here

but it might be possible to trick the world into light & laughter

& we wont know unless we try

but i agree it is important that we do

& tonite we are already on the air with it

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
<aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> 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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