In a message dated 12/25/09 12:25:43 PM, [email protected] writes:
> You're on a Mac? Use the Mac Mail program. Then you won't have any > problems > with code characters appearing in the messages. > > That's a good tip, Michael, but perhaps for other circumstances. As it is, I use Mac Mail for all playwright-and-website related correspondence. And by retaining aol for all "non-business" stuff -- like the forum -- everything I send or receive continues to get filed or archived under the name 'Cheerskep'. >From time to time aol has stumbled enough to make me think of changing servers, but I recoil from the idea of getting the 240 or so people in my address book to change my address in their book. I know that when I'm told someone has changed his address, I have to hunt down the guy's name in about five different places in my address book. Besides, I'm fairly sure the double-quotes thing on Word is the only often-occurring glitch-cause, and that's now fixed. How's this for damnable dumb: On my website three new plays of mine are posted. There is a "Contact" window for anyone who wants to, er, contact me. They type a message in, and hit "Send". They believe their message has gone to my Mac MAIL address: [email protected]. What they don't know is: their message didn't get sent. The "expert" who arranged things with my host failed to complete the Contact installation. So, over the last year or more, during which time plays have been down loaded over 1,300 times, none of those would-be contacts made it through to me. I didn't realize it because I was getting plenty of other correspondence in and out of that Office address; I never registered the fact that none of it was via the website. With uncharacteristic humility, I was just assuming none of those 1,300 downloaders found anything worth talking about. It's a bit like putting an ad on the internet with a "Click here to buy!" function that never got plugged in. It finally got fixed this week.
