[Dixielandjazz] Question
Gary Lawrence Murphy
garym at teledyn.com
Tue Dec 25 15:06:16 PST 2012
John Cage said to me one time, "I will never learn anything about
computers; it keeps young people involved in my work." That might be a good
option for you too :)
I can only really offer this: why do you think you need Digest-Mode in the
first place? After all, overnight mail-drops haven't been necessary for
over 20 years.
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 6:02 PM, <vaxtrpts at aol.com> wrote:
> Hi Gary:
> I have no idea what all that stuff you were talking about means, but I
> just answered your message and took my whole first message out and most of
> yours.................................
> And I'm pretty much a computer idiot.
> Mike Vax
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com>
> To: vaxtrpts <vaxtrpts at aol.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Tue, Dec 25, 2012 3:50 pm
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Question
>
> I likely doesn't help much, but I think it is fair to say that
> 'Digest-mode' is an anachronism in these modern times of Gmail and similar
> accounts -- most people are unaware of the context of the message being
> tagged to the bottom because their mail reading software, typically a
> website like Gmail, hides this behind an elision. So asking folks to
> remove that information means the majority are being called upon to learn a
> new trick that is out of the process stream of reading their emails in a
> way they use for every other internet mail service.
>
> I feel your pain, but it *is** 2012*
>
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