Re: a signature question
Cecilia A. Baader (cbaader@my-Deja.com)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:32:02 -0700
Ah, young grasshopper...
I, too, was a bit puzzled by the mysterious signatures, until I remembered Bruce/"Frederick"'s email a few days ago:
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...But it did get me thinking about the inhabitants of our fish pond... [edited for brevity] ...Granted, some of you ancients--you know who I mean, yes, you, the over-40 crowd--might be a *little* embarrassed, but hey, face it, your lives are *over*. All of us safely under Jack Benny's (yeah, we know who he is)
perennial age of 39 are breathing sighs of relief... So. In short, I propose, with each new post, each fish, *once*, appends at the end of her or his post: birth date (don't forget the *year*) and present city of location.
I'll start if off: 12/22/81, Westport, CT, USA. And as an added revelation, I live with my dog.
--Frederick
P.S. Sorry about that typo, it's 80.
ObSal: Salinger is over 80, too. I, however, am not.
Regards,
Cecilia.
(My first free evening in weeks and what do I do? Read Bananafish. I wish I'd been in town for the recent flurry of posts on DDS. But alas, Iowa called and I had to commune with cornfields for a couple of weeks. Glad to be back.)
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:45:40 Matthew Kozusko wrote:
>I wasn't quite sure what to make of the birthdate stamps and residence
>details that have begun appearing at the bottom of messages. I reviewed the
>week's activities but found nothing useful. Then I realized that the
>appearance of these peculiar new signatures coincided exactly with my
>switching from Netscape's Messenger to Microsoft's Outlook Express. I
>checked the "options" configuration under the "tools" menu, and sure enough,
>there was a radio button on the "read" tab: "display sender's birthdate and
>current residence details."
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>Trouble is, I turned this function off and rebooted, but messages are still
>coming
>through with birthdates and addresses. What's going on?
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>Obsal: Sean's recent post on F+Z
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