whether or not you're sticking around... (a mail glitch seems a bad reason to leave) you can use gmail offline. Also yahoo mail is good (and can be used offline). They're probably the best of the free ones. (My btinternet address, from which I post sometimes, is yahoo in disguise, but more limited; I'm thinking of swapping to yahoo.) and been > constantly unsubscribed freelists strikes again. I've only been unsubbed once, I think, but the web page subscription etc. options don't always work. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stone" <pas@xxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 6:23 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] okay, one last time > After almost 10 years of being subscribed to various incarnations of this > listserve, I think I may have finally come to an insurmountable technical > difficulty which is now going to render me mute -- I can hear the cheering > already. > > Over the past six months, I've tried two regular email addresses and been > constantly unsubscribed... for the past month or so, I've been getting my > mail sent to my gmail addy. The problem: their front end is terrible and > the editor is abysmal. I find myself not responding to a lot of stuff that > I would like to simply because I don't feel comfortable with the > constraints that gmail puts on my responses (no spell check, can't readily > compose in fits and starts, coming back to what I've started, their folder > capabilities are basically non-existent etc.) so, I'm trying out this pop > mail server that I had a bit of success with over the summer. If it doesn't > work, I will simply continue to read -- I get my gmail forwarded to me -- > but not respond to your posts. > > I feel I must apologize for my dozen or so most recent posts which were put > together in much haste and without benefit of adequate proof-reading. I > hate to foist unpolished material on others. If I can't do it right, I > won't do it. > > So, keep it up. To the friends I've made over the years, thanks. To the > enemies, thanks even more. > Tis pity when arbitrary decisions made by 'experts' make computers > automatically discriminate. > > possibly or possibly not sticking around, > p > > ########## > Paul Stone > pas@xxxxxxxx > Kingsville, ON, Canada > > --------------------------------------------------------------- --- > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html