Re: [ADMIN] fancy-pants mail!

citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Fri, 08 Jan 1999 16:49:12 -0800 

Tim,
Am I one of the culprits re HTML? ( I know next to nothing re computers.)
If I am, please send explicit instructions to fix the problem.  Pretend you
are addressing a five-year old.  That's about my level (I'm probably being
generous toward myself.)  Many Thanks, Bruce.


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From: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
To: Discussions of J.D. Salinger's work <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 1:00 AM
Subject: BANANAFISH digest 564


>     BANANAFISH Digest 564
>
>Topics covered in this issue include:
>
>  1) [ADMIN] fancy-pants mail!
> by Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu>
>  2) Weird
> by Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
>  3) Re: Weird
> by Mike42082@aol.com
>
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>
>Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 10:08:54 -0500
>From: Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu>
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: [ADMIN] fancy-pants mail!
>Message-ID: <19990107100854.A3207@anthrax.acf.nyu.edu>
>
>
>[ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS]
>
>Hi, all!  A few of our subscribers recently seem to have upgraded
>to mail software that puts out messages formatted in HTML (i.e.,
>as if designed to be read as a web page).
>
>That works great in a controlled environment, such as an office
>where everyone uses the same mailer.
>
>It does not work so well on the Internet, where people out here have
>systems of all kinds, and may or may not be able to read your message.
>
>So, if you can control the behavior of your mailer, please instruct
>it not to send "styled" or "richly formatted" or "HTML" text.
>
>That way, your messages will come through clearly and people will
>be able to read them even if they are using plain old text-based
>mailers.  I've been manually cleaning them up for the archive, though
>there is a limit to the amount of time I have for doing such things,
>and if you can get your mail to come out clean right from the start,
>it will be best for everyone who tries to read your mail.
>
>Thanks -- with happiness for having survived the first week of 1999
>so far.
>
>--tim o'connor
>
>
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>Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 11:33:24 +1100
>From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Weird
>Message-ID: <199901080036.QAA21599@geocities.com>
>
>Just on a whim I tried the `If you liked this author you'll like that
>author' type dealie on Amazon.com. And yes, I tried JD Salinger. It
>returned: Hunter S. Thompson, Rick Moody, Michael Chabon. Do *any* of these
>writers have anything in common with JD ??? Sure, the Ice Storm was seen as
>somewhat JDish by some (and I can't comment having only seen the movie,
>which I liked very much) but it does seem a little cursory.
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>@ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
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>Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 21:18:49 -0500 (EST)
>From: Mike42082@aol.com
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: Weird
>Message-ID: <db07ad65.36956b09@aol.com>
>
><<Just on a whim I tried the `If you liked this author you'll like that
>author' type dealie on Amazon.com. And yes, I tried JD Salinger. It
>returned: Hunter S. Thompson, Rick Moody, Michael Chabon. Do *any* of these
>writers have anything in common with JD ??? Sure, the Ice Storm was seen as
>somewhat JDish by some (and I can't comment having only seen the movie,
>which I liked very much) but it does seem a little cursory.>>
>
>
>I don't mean to be one to argue about nothing, but Amazon.com isn't trying
to
>give authors that have something in common, but rather, authors that they
feel
>that the reader will enjoy as well.  ..Just a couple of cents..
>
>Mike
>
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