Re: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 at 11:55:07, Norman Dunbar wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tony, Our email system is Exchange, and when I got the email in from the list, there was no attachemnet and the format is 'plain text' (I hate HTML and RTF emails - just so someone can have their signiture embedded etc !). The headers are as follows (from the message I got send) : SNIP of some header stuff Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:44:53 - MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; It says above 'plain text' - which is how I have my email configured anyway. I'm puzzled now. Don't worry. I think your 'attachment' is basically plain text. It must though contain some control characters as Turnpike treats is as an 'attachment' with header and footer and action bars. I suspect it some chrs 26 which shouldn't worry even a text mailer. Sorry for worrying you (8-)# -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
Re: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about
In article 016e01c285e4$89b874c0$2901a8c0@pc119, Darren Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Excellent Tony. Nice to hear something like this for a change. Have we truly forgotten why the hell we all keep this up? I haven't. I lug a huge bloody suitcase full of QL stuff across the Irish sea half a dozen times a year usually. I do it to help keep the QL scene alive, and to meet people I regard as close and dear friends. I can vouch for that suitcase being not also huge, but very heavy :-) Attend the London Show, if you can, and show your appreciation ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:44 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about Insert warm rosy glow here ! Well done Tony. Just what I said at the start of the current discourse? C'mon guys it's a hobby and a hobby that includes some nice people, .. All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about
??? 7/11/2002 5:39:48 ??, ?/? Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: - Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:44 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about Insert warm rosy glow here ! Well done Tony. Just what I said at the start of the current discourse? C'mon guys it's a hobby and a hobby that includes some nice people, .. Yep especially the ones that sell their Q40s to poor Europeans living in the US I have to add :-) Phoebus Ahoy there mateys! (Inside joke... Bill surely understands) :-D
Re: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about
Excellent Tony. Nice to hear something like this for a change. Have we truly forgotten why the hell we all keep this up? I haven't. I lug a huge bloody suitcase full of QL stuff across the Irish sea half a dozen times a year usually. I do it to help keep the QL scene alive, and to meet people I regard as close and dear friends. Come on Guys. Darren Branagh Director, Wicklow Web Centre Limited Computer Training, Web Design, Repairs sales Upgrades. Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.wwc.ie - Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:26 PM Subject: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about After the recent unfortunate, sometimes uninformed, and sometimes downright silly emails in ql-users about the SMSQ/E license, I was absolutely delighted to get a letter from an 'octogenarian' customer (one of the very few customers of any age this year) this morning to remind me what I like about the QL scene, and why I am still around. I repaired her QL (for the second time after a ten year gap), but forgot to tell her in advance that replacement mdv hardware was extra. I simply scribbled a note on the invoice saying something like that, and that it was her lucky day as she got it free. Incidentally the new membrane I fitted in 1990 was still in working order, though brittle. It supported my theory that the main reason membranes fail inside closed QLs is that the tails were bent very hard back on themselves by Thorn-EMI just as they emerge from under the metal plate. Give the tails a gentle curve and the membrane will last - even after it becomes brittle. Here is her reply: QUOTE Dear Sir, Forgive the formality. I don't know your name. I think you really should know just how much your cryptic message on my invoice (No. S07585) encouraged me. It came at a time when other things were not going well and my spirits were low. It was not just the sparing of my bank account, very welcome with Christmas galloping up, but the integrity and generosity translated into action and the humerous [sic] explanation. As an octogenarian I deeply appreciate that. Thank you very much. It is great to have my QL back in service. Yours sincerely, /QUOTE I cannot but think it good that she is not on the internet (she could have guessed 'tony' from my email) - but maybe she will read all about it in Quanta (8-(# -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.demon.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
