Secor's complaints

Hmmmm . . can't quite figure out if this is a complaint about the columbia
list, yahoo-email, MS word, or all three (!) :)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:22:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: George Secor <gdsecor@...>
Reply-To: tuning@...
To: tuning@music.columbia.edu
Subject: [tuning] Re: JI buzz. where does it come from?

. . . . . . [interesting stuff clipped]. . . .

This is also a test reply to the message, which I got
in digest form, which I receive in Yahoo e-mail (which
truncated the digest text before the message I wanted
when I tried to reply to it directly). So in order to
reply to this, I had to click on an spot under Today’s
Topics (just so it isn’t a link), hit control-A on the
keyboard to paste the whole thing into the Windows
clipboard, opened up a blank document in MS Word,
pasted it there, and edited out what I didn’t want.
(For clarity, I enclosed the original message with <<
and >>.) I then typed my reply and pasted it into my
e-mail reply, taking care to paste in the proper
subject line. (Unfortunately, MS Word also does some
cute things with ‘single’ and “double” quotation marks
that I can’t turn off and which might come out weird
when somebody else receives them in their e-mail. I
have left these here to further test that “feature” to
see how troublesome it will be.)

--George

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--- In metatuning@y..., Christopher Bailey <cb202@c...> wrote:
>
> Hmmmm . . can't quite figure out if this is a complaint about the columbia
> list, yahoo-email, MS word, or all three (!) :)

George, from what I've seen, is a pretty savvy guy, but this stuff kills me! The web is supposed to make it *easy*, right? Gad, all these problems would disappear in a flash by simply using an email program.

What, indeed, could be simpler?

And with all the yammering about "boy I hope all this stuff gets saved in archives" - hell, every mailing list I've subscribed to (that I thought would be valuable) I've kept one subscription in digest mode, and having saved those I have complete archives, searchable with any text searching tool.

Cheers,
Jon