Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 09:02:34 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Email & HTML & 1st Friday Meeting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 12:38 AM 04/07/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net> wrote:
>
> > Good idea.  If you're going to be posting from a different address
> > than your mail is being sent to, you might want to let Keith know so
> > he can do his filter magic.
>
>It can't hurt, but it's not really necessary.  If it's an address I've
>heard of, or if your name appears on the From line, it will go to the
>list.  Otherwise it will be held for my approval.  If it looks to me
>like it was sent by a WSFA members, I will release it to the list, and
>add both the name and the email address to the approved list, so that
>future messages from that source will go directly to the list without
>my intervention.
>
>Whose names are already in that approved list?  Anyone who is on this
>list, anyone who has ever posted to this list, anyone who has attended
>at least three WSFA meetings in the past six years, anyone who has
>been a WSFA officer in the past 24 years, and anyone who has ever been
>a Disclave chairbeing ever.  And my brother.
>
> > A hint.  The so-called "editors" on Web-based e-mail are pretty bad.
> > It's perfectly easy to use your favorite text editor or word
> > processor to compose your mail, with all the text you're replying
> > to, and then do a copy- and- paste into the Webmail.
>
>Right.  This also allows you to post one reply which quotes snippets
>from several messages.  I've noticed that nobody but me has done this
>on this list.  I do it when there are several related messages I want
>to reply to, rather than composing a separate reply to each.
>
>Is HTML even still an issue?  As far as I know, the only person who
>was apparently unable to turn off HTML was Sally, and that only from
>her work account.  And she no longer works there anyway.

Uh.  Keith.  I asked you how to un-HTML a message I was trying to forward
and when you didn't reply, I just gave up.

Candy