Re: Boffins & saving email

Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:55:18 -0700 (PDT)

Boffin(s) is such a great word.  In "The Peoples' War," Nigel Calder
says that its origin is uncertain.  Anyone have a further explanation
or clue of where it came from?

About saving email - just my two cents about what I do, which may be
obvious and/or inefficient to other computer boffins/mavens etc. but it
works every time.  At my job, on the sly, I don't have time to figure
out or mess with folders.  I highlight the whatever I want to save, hit
control/C then move over to Microsoft Word.  I paste it into a Word
document and then save that (File toolbar, click on "Save As") to a
floppy.  If there are any formatting irregularities that carry over
from the original document I deal with them later when the corner
office management has gone home.  There may be twenty or more very good
reasons why another method may use less memory or be quicker to do but
I don't know them.

I'd be willing to bet that this is the method Holden would have used
since he seemed to be an impatient guy, or he'd have gotten one of his
girlfriends who was computer savvy to "...take care of that Goddamn
software stuff and all..."

Buddy would probably have always been there to help Seymore do it, but
Seymore probably would have kept it all in his head.  And Franny or
Zooey re: earlier postings, would be emailing with Laptops in the
bathroom.


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