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stay as sweet as you are bill i love it makes my day judy >From: "William A. Parrette" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: OFF-TOPIC (NON-PD): Reviewing e-mail 101 -- Bill is busted! >Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:32:57 -0400 > >Hi all, > > It has been brought to my attention that I -- even with all of > my yipping and yapping about quoting, MIME types, and HTML -- vi- > olate common 'Netiquette guidelines. And, I would like to apolo- > gize to the list for that. > > There is a 'Netiquette guideline that suggests that "signa- > tures" -- in my case, the bubble-font spelling of my last name > the ASCII-art, and the tag line -- should be no more than four > lines long. Typically, my signature can vary between 8 and 12 > lines in length. I apologize. > > Since the term "gobbledegoop" was used to describe my signa- > ture, I'll assume that a large number of list-subscribers do not > have the ability to change the font used by their mail client to > read messages. The term would describe exactly what my signature > looked like if the reader was viewing it with a proportional font > (Helvetica, Times, Palatino, and the like). To make any sense > out of everything except the tag line, one would have to change > their mail client's font to a mono-spaced font (Courier, Termi- > nal, Typewriter, and the like). > > So, rather than make a decision based on one opinion. I > thought I might solicit input from other list-members. *PLEASE* > do this off-list to avoid cluttering up the list-mail with unnec- > essary, off-topic responses. But, if you would like me to loose > the signature or keep the signature in my list posts (sorry -- > you're stuck with them in personal correspondence :-) ) let me > know in a private, off-list reply to this message. > > Thanks, in advance ... > >Bill-- > ...who says that a blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a >sword. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com