[lit-ideas] Re: okay, one last time

  • From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:28:41 -0800

I agree, Irene.  A few years ago I was using an inferior email system.  I
can't remember its name, but it wasn't very good; so I would copy & paste
the message I wished to respond to into WordPerfect.  I would then write my
responses and use the WordPerfect spell check, etc.  Then I would copy and
paste it back into the inferior email utility and send it.  I would then
delete the WordPerfect text without saving it.  

 

This approach worked well from my standpoint.  I could do it fairly swiftly;
however someone with an older system complained that my messages appeared in
his inbox with strange code marks in them and did a couple of weird things
like convert " to ?, maybe I wouldn't have had that problem if I'd used Word
at the time, but I used WordPerfect.  I now use Microsoft Outlook which lets
me use the Word 2003 Word Processor to prepare messages - the best of both
worlds.

 

Lawrence

 

-----Original Message-----
From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andy Amago
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:58 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: okay, one last time

 

Can you compose in Word and copy and paste?  Copy the original message,
paste it into Word, respond, then copy and paste back into gmail (I never
used it, don't know what it is).  After the computer problems I had, I think
Word is better anyway because it can be saved onto a thumb drive.  I don't
save anything in the computer anymore.  Copying and pasting isn't the most
convenient, that's true, but I hate to see you go, and saving outside the
computer does have its advantages.    

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----

>From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxxx>

>Sent: Dec 29, 2006 1:23 PM

>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

>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.

>

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