william
the mind picture of anyone playing leapfrog with a unicorn made me laugh so
much i had to take to the sedatives to get back onto the internet
could have used it in my former life in a school to immobilise some of those
difficult boys
what a hoot
thanks for the advice re emailling
i am new to it and find i cant absorb all the refined techniques quickly
thanks judy


>From: "William A. Parrette" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: It just seemed a bit odd ... & Reviewing e-mail 101
>Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:08:55 -0400
>
>Hi all,
>
> First off let me say that I am not trying to flame anybody, it
> is not my intent to make anybody mad or hurt anyone's feelings,
> and I am not writing this note to boost my own ego or to try to
> punch holes in the egos of others. It just seemed a bit odd that
> ...
>
> I was reading through the digest and came upon three separate
> notes about copyright issues regarding the posting of entire
> chapters of a book (and as a published author as well, I happen
> to agree with). And, it just seemed a bit odd that each of the
> three separate posts quoted the entire text of one of the chap-
> ters that were being complained about in their reply.
>
> What is odd is that the copyrighted text that was under dis-
> cussion had now been posted a total of four times. I might hu-
> morously ask if there is a copyright law about copying a copy of
> a violated work in an e-mail reply. Or, would the thought be too
> recursive?
>
> Anyway, this brings up one of my smaller e-mail pet peeves.
> It is a fairly common form of Internet courtesy -- or 'Netiquette
> -- to only include the *portion* of the text of the e-mail that
> you are replying to in your reply -- not the *entire* message.
> Only include that text which helps someone understand the context
> of your reply.
>
> I know that it is easier to press "Reply," add some text, and
> press "Send." But, consider the fact that everyone on-list has
> seen the original message at least once. Do, they need to see
> the entire text of it again? And, people (like me :-) ) on the
> digest don't have the option of deleting a message after we read
> the reply. We get the whole thing with dozens of other, similar
> messages surrounding it. And, when it starts becoming quotes of
> quotes of quotes of quotes, it gets a little annoying.
>
> For most folks, this is a simple mouse operation: point to the
> text you don't need, press mouse button one, hold and drag until
> the text you don't want to include is highlighted, and then press
> the backspace or delete key. Or, if you don't want the text of
> the original message in your reply at all, it's a very simple Op-
> tion/Preference change in most mailers.
>
> There is already a list-contingent who is trying (slowly but
> surely) to get list-members to post in plain text -- no MIME at-
> tachments, no included HTML -- and they are being somewhat suc-
> cessful. If we could just add this one little thing, in my opin-
> ion, everybody's list experience would be a little bit better.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to let me invade your mailbox
> with my opinion. We now take you back to your regularly sched-
> uled Parkinson's chat.
>
>Bill--
> ...who heard a wise man say "Never play leapfrog with a Unicorn."
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