Hi cIndy,

Cindy Haglund wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

 CH> I give up. There's a lady in my little email group who is still brand
 CH> new to emailing attachments.
 

 RW> If she can't do that, then ask her to leave you out of her mailing
RW> list.


 RW> I've been known to do that to plenty of folks who think I want all
 RW> those binaries, pictures of this, pictures of that, pdf files I can't
 RW> read, etc. THe same joke I've seen a hundred times before, and the
 RW> forwarding list just gets longer.

CH>  It's incredible how insensitive people can be. I read letters to
CH> Miss Manners (back in FW when we had her column in the Star
CH> Telegram. Not sure if Orlando Sentinel carries it as we don't get it
CH> every day.) 

Yah, the way this system works I have to download all the mail before I can
delete it, the way the scripting works.  sO some jerk sending me a huge
binary I ahve no use for just ties up my system while it downloads.

Had a guy on an email list for a radio network I'm part of.  THis net
assists missionaries posted abroad, deployed service people and cruisers
offshore.  OFtentimes the email list carries logistical info we controllers
need to assist someone effectively.

tHIs one fellow thought everybody wanted to see his nice woodland scenes,
forwards of a guy's pics from the Amazon river etc. I complained to the
list admins that if they were going to continue to allow the flood of
material not relevant to the net as a whole I was going to have to resign
my volun teer position.

CH> It's amazing. People ask personal questions of total strangers! Or
CH> in email someone who knows you hare deaf is always talking about
CH> music and music technology. I feel like asking them: Is this a test?

I didn't know that about you, but probably should have.  I saw your mention
of a tdd the other day. I'm not very observant am I?

IN our meetings of an organization of the blind I used to work with a deaf
blind lady quite often.  sHe had a little device called a teletouch, a
typewriter keyboard and the regular six dot braille keyboard on the bottom
next to the spacebar. You oculd type on either keyboard, she'd hold her
hand over a place in the back where the letters you typed came up in
braille.

sHe liked me translating for her at meetings and convention sessions
because she said I was one of the best at keeping her abreast of
discussions. IN fact, on many of the major holidays if my wife and I were
going to remain at home we'd have her over for dinner since she had no
family.  I would go over in a cab to get her at the assisted living
facility where she lived.


Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+