Re: [tuning] Digest Number 1752

Re the formatting issues, those of you who insist on posting html (I
*think* that's what you're doing) should know what it looks like to those
of us who read plain-text:

On 11 Dec 2001 tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

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> From: J Gill <JGill99@imajis.com>
> Subject: The Prime Duodala
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> From: J Gill <JGill99@imajis.com>
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So whatever these messages were about, they didn't make it through to some
list members. I am mostly a lurker here, but I'll add my voice to Jon Sz's
and say please keep things text-only as much as possible. I read the
tuning digest through my unix mail-reader on a text-only terminal. Html
and colour formatting won't work for people like me. Sorry to waste yet
more bandwidth on this...

On that last point, I'd also suggest creating a group for test messages,
if there's not already one created. Sort of like alt.test on usenet. That
way you can test away to your heart's content without it going into the
tuning archives and emailed to the whole list.

cheers --jon wild

--- In tuning@y..., jon wild <wild@f...> wrote:
> On that last point, I'd also suggest creating a group for test
> messages, if there's not already one created. That
> way you can test away to your heart's content without it going
> into the tuning archives and emailed to the whole list.

Heh. Just as I was going to say it! We have a place for topics *from*
the tuning community that *isn't* about tuning, and seems like as
good a place as any:

/metatuning/

Seems reasonable, no?

Cheers,
Jon

--- In tuning@y..., "jonszanto" <JSZANTO@A...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_31391.html#31392

> --- In tuning@y..., jon wild <wild@f...> wrote:
> > On that last point, I'd also suggest creating a group for test
> > messages, if there's not already one created. That
> > way you can test away to your heart's content without it going
> > into the tuning archives and emailed to the whole list.
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> Heh. Just as I was going to say it! We have a place for topics
*from*
> the tuning community that *isn't* about tuning, and seems like as
> good a place as any:
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> /metatuning/
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> Seems reasonable, no?
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> Cheers,
> Jon

Hello Jon and J. Gill...

I have *another* suggestion that, possibly, could be even preferable,
since there, generally speaking, have been items of value
on "Metatuning."

John deLaubenfels started a group called "Tuning Challenges" as a
response to our lovable "nutty professor." However, when the *real*
terrorists came around, this site lost much of its impact.

I was wondering if John would shut it down, since, at the present, it
exists only as a spam repository, but it might be a good place for
tests:

/tuning-challenges/

A quick note on the HTML issue:

Although, most probably HTML e-mail will be, eventually, the future,
I have been rather resistant to it for a couple of reasons:

1) I've had friends who have had trouble reading my HTML e-mails for
one reason or another... browser settings, whatever, color settings...

2) As someone who used e-mail back in 1988 (only sent, at that time
to a few computer nerds, etc...) I value the simplicity of its *text*
history... That seems, rather, to be Jon Szanto's orientation as
well...

J. Pehrson