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I personally cannot see the reasons for not permitting the occasional attachment, decent looking fonts, etc. It seems to me that there were 3 reasons for not permitting them: 1) The virus problem. It also seems to me that if there is anyone on this List who does not now have good virus protection software, updateable periodically, what with what went on here with virus's - well , I am not going to say they deserve what they get, but I'm athinkin' it. 2.)The too-big-files-sent-out issue. I believe the ownership - the previous ownership - installed some software that would prevent, not all attached files, but just the too big ones from being sent out for down loading. & 3) there was a concern that a percentage of the List membership cannot afford to buy an up-to-date computer capable of handling attachments, fonts, etc. Prices of PC's have come down 36% on average, I read last week, in the past 12 months. If you don't mind using your old monitor, you can get a new Dell [the Lexus of PC's] with a 1.0 GHz Pentium III processor, 128 MB of RAM, a 20.0 GB harddrive [these are big & powerful numbers], + MS software, a video card, sound card, 48x CD-ROM, speakers, modem, a six month free AOL membership, Digital Imaging Software, & Norton antivirus - all for $614 - no sales tax, no shipping charge!! A monitor is $100. None of this is good news for the NASDAQ, but it is for us. I'm not planning a palace coop or anything, so please don't send out the dogs. I would just like to see someone refute my argument Thanks, BBA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edith S. Love" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 1:51 PM Subject: Survey > Does anyone know how I can get in touch with John Cottingham? I've tried > until I'm blue in the face, and everything keeps coming back. > > This whole process can be simplified if PIEN will accept an attachment, so > that everyone taking the survey can download and go from there. If this is > not possible, and believe me, I wish no one PC harm, given an address, I > can mail the survey to the Web Master, and he can safely post it. What I'm > trying for is a professional environment because I want to contact other > organizations to invite their members to participate. Also, I'm hoping all > of us will contact area support groups for caretakers as well as others who > are not on line. We want a large sample, and we want to be professional > about it! > > Other ways to go include: having everyone contact me at my email address > for a copy of the survey. OR join forces with someone who already has a > web page with room who will volunteer to carry the survey. > > Greg, bless you, recommends my developing a web page. That's not in the > books for me right now though it might be an option at some point in time. > > In all of these cases, I believe we'll lose numbers. PIENs reputation is > that of being established, of being professional and of being respected. I > know the list owners are open to anything that might enable us to learn > from each other. > > Thanks for listening and for joining me in small miracle hunting,, > E of the headdress > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn