Klarinet Archive - Posting 000102.txt from 2002/10

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Quoting Archive URLs
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:04:09 -0400

Tony Pay wrote,
>I see that I've sort of assumed that most people
>are online when they read Klarinet; but for ages
>I wasn't, so there's no reason why I should assume
>anyone else is. (They mostly are in the US, though, I
>think. Anyone there not? Who else is in Ian's position,
>just out of interest?

I delete spam and read short e-mails online, but I subscribe to the Klarinet
list in digest form, a file that's often inconveniently long to read as an
e-mail. Since I also subscribe to several other e-mail lists in digest form,
I save them all to a floppy disk and read them offline. If I see a link I'd
like to follow, I select and copy it, then go back online and paste the
address into the "go to" box.

Reading and writing offline keeps my telephone line free. Reading the lists
with a word processor also lets me start by using a macro to clean out the
usual clutter of gobbledygook symbols that result from people posting in
fancy fonts and various formats to a list that's sent out as text. (That's a
far worse problem on other lists than it is on Klarinet, since Mark Charette
prevents the most illegible messes by turning away attempts to post things
like photos and music scores here. Thank you, Mark!) I also like being able
to use the word processor's "Find" function to go straight back to a post I
want to re-read and quote in a reply, after I finish reading the Digest.

Lelia

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