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Re: TT: Significance of individual trees
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Hi,
...on "odd punctuation marks" and re-formating of copies:
When a post has been passed around three of four times, or is just
difficult to read, I download it to my home machine; overhaul it, then
send it on it's way again. Takes a few minutes, but it saves the next
reader a lot of grief!
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, RTEllsberry wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Mary Bedard wrote:
>
> > (I'm sorry about the odd puntuation marks in the copies -- why does that
> > happen in some mailages?)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mary
>
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> Hi Mary Bedard -
>
> Big thanx to you and to our other reporters who are making TreeTown such
> an interesting place to be these days. It's so great how (American)
> Christmas rituals are giving rise to such a depth of tree-lore.
>
> I want to answer your question from a programmer's perspective. We'll
> have to just live with the peculiar re-puncuations / wrappings and other
> formattings that come about from email being passed between not-fully-
> compatible softwares and platforms. Your frustrations are shared, but
> this is currently a fact of life. Folks, please don't get overly
> concerned when your postings get re-ordered while passed along through
> the system. We hear you.
>
> A bigger problem occurs when a normal ASCII text message goes through
> just fine, but has attached to it a Microsoft Word or other unfriendly
> file that takes up alot of space (or 'bandwidth' as they say) ... This
> is rough on our digest members, who must scroll through pages of
> Martianese to get to the next great posting.
>
> Hope this helps -
> Richard@Flora.Com
>
>
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