[muglo] Virtues of Mail and other stuff

Hello Muglo-ites:

The spring term is over at Malaspina University-College, and the 
election is almost over, so now I can respond to some of the muglo 
threads.

Re sending attachments in Mail:  I have no problem sending them to PCs 
as long as I attach the extension .doc when sending them in MSWord.  
Usually if people can't open them or find nothing in them it's because 
they  have a virus.

My only complaint about Mail is its spell-checker, which is very poor. 
I find it doesn't pick up all my typos, so I have to run a spell-check, 
then go through and manually proof it again - which sort of negates the 
whole purpose of a spell-checker, to my way of thinking, and since I'm 
a lousy typist, is really annoying.  Outlook Express has a much more 
sophisticated spell-checker.

I also wanted to let you folks know how the saga of the G4 laptop from 
hell ended.  It's actually behaving itself quite well, now.  I upgraded 
my operating system to Panther, and also upgraded to the latest version 
of MS Office for Macs.  I bought a new mouse - a logitech - and it 
works like a dream.

I have a snazzy little Kingston flash drive, which I just saved my 
thesis and book manuscript to in a few nanoseconds, and I have Norton 
AntiVirus 9, so I'm well-protected.

I found out that the Norton Utilities 8 which I bought from Symantec 
had compatibility problems with Panther, so that it was giving false 
reports of major errors on my  hard drive when there weren't any.  
Norton won't give me a refund for it, by the way, even though their own 
website said that it had a problem.

I've installed a program from AtomicBird called Macaroni that 
automatically looks after your HD; it's not as sophisticated as Norton, 
but it doesn't have as many problems, and only costs $17 CAD.

So, I'm happy at last - after having my logic board, battery,  hard 
drive and mouse replaced (although I'm missing some fonts which my 
helpful local techie is going to help me restore).

I'm going to be in London for the Home County Folk Festival in July - 
maybe I'll see some of you there.

Cheers,

Kathryn

On Jun 21, 2004, at 7:31 AM, Marty Peterson wrote:

> I found that attachments can either be sent suitable for PC or MAC not 
> both.
> This is difficult when sending e-mails.  Once Apple solves that 
> problem, Mac
> Mail is a very good program.  I like the "bounce to sender" feature 
> when
> getting annoying e-mails.
>
> Marty Peterson
>
>

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