--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > --- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> 
> > > The pages are just .gif bitmap images. No wonder
> you couldn't paste excerpts :-)
> > 
> > <lopsided grin>
> > If I knew what ".gif bitmap images" actually
> *were* I might even get the joke... <snip> 
> 
> It means it's an image.  Like a photograph.  Not
> something you could
> manipulate with a word processor or other text
> editing program, the way
> you can with most of the pages you cite from various
> sites.  Trying to
> highlight text from one of those pages of
> uncorrected proofs would be like
> my trying to highlight the text of the photograph of
> my great-grandmother's grave and expecting it to
> transfer to plain text e-mail...  <snip>

<"huh?" look on face>
Nah why in tarnashun woo'n't that work?! I meen, theez
hyear kompyooters iz 'pozed ta be eble to doo such an'
fancy-like...

Thanks for the explanation - that _would_ be
difficult, I see.  :)  (But probably not impossible in
the future...)

Gittin' Two Bee Ejookated Maru

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