I appreciate your difficulty - I have the same problem whenever someone
sends a pure HTML email - I have to navigate down several layers of
menus, and the result is a barely human readable message.
I also understand Microsoft Outlook has trouble understanding RFC
compliant signed emails, hence I have turned off autosigning for list
posts. I'll try to look at messages sent back from the everything list
email server to see if they're still being signed.
Have you tried reading the messages on the escribe archive? I do know
that those messages are plain text, and threaded, so this may be more
convenient for you.
Also, some email threads started off on the FoR list, which I
unsubscribed because I got too irritated with its censureship
policy. Consequently, I missed some of the thread beginnings too.
Cheers
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:59:06PM -0400, jamikes wrote:
> Dear Russell and list:
> this is a personal problem due to my extremely feeble skills in computering.
>
> I had (optimistically in past tense) problems with my internet e-mail
> connection and could not get/send e-mail since the date of this post. Then 2
> times I was lucky and got hundreds of email at a time, (the browser is still
> closed from my usage). To separate chaff from seed, I extracted the
> list-post before deleting the "slumscumspam". From May 24 to June 13 I
> accumulated 270 listposts -absolutely impossible to scan for topical and
> content interest. Those posts were accessible (for me) that started with a
> statement of the writer and not a lot of copies with some reply-lines
> interjected. I know (and like to use) to copy the phrases to reply to but
> even in a 2-week archiving it turns sour. After the first 30-40 post-reviews
> I got dizzy. This pertains to the regular listpost.
>
> Your posts are one degree worse:
> You had 32 attachment-convoluted posts in the 270 of the 20 day everything
> list. The procedure
> to glance at your text (and I like to read what you wrote) I have to select
> the attachment, then call it up, then select open, then read it, and - If I
> want to save it: copy or cut it to file in 3-5 more clicks.
> A regular e-mail requires ONE click to read and ONE to save (in my Outlook
> Express).
>
> I don't want to "reformulate" this list, just tried to communicate a point
> that may make MY life easier.
>
> Apologies for whining
>
> John Mikes
>
> PS: I lost the 'original' post of the Subject:
> "RE:What do you lose if you simply accept..."
> and reading the posts I could not find out WHAT to accept? the posts were
> all over the Library of Congress, nothing to the original subject to
> explain. Just curious. JM
> ==========================
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russell Standish" <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
> To: "Hal Finney" <hal.domain.name.hidden>
> Cc: <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:45 AM
> Subject: Re: White Rabbit vs. Tegmark
>
>
>
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*PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which
is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a
virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this
email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you
may safely ignore this attachment.
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