Don writes, <Hey there guys;
First of all, thanks to Yersinia for 'defending' the condition of my house! ( If you only knew...... *grin ) Since I'm the 'husband' I won't whine about anything that's not 'spic and span' * steals a quick glance at tools sitting by the stairway Second; In this world, there are 'throwers' and 'savers'. I'm a saver. (How'd ya guess???)> 1. You're very welcome. It's always a total shock when someone passes through this sewer rat nest of an apartment of mine and then sees how my Macs are set up. Yeah, they're surrounded by cluttered "piles o'stuff" on the desk (the G3) and top of the file cabinet which houses my Powerbooks and LaserWriter 300 (I have to move a huge pile off the printer and onto the bed each time I need to print something, in fact!), but when they're powered up, what do you see? Neat desktops with the same desktop picture on each, theme-named folders with icons, and not only that, I can find everything that's in those folders, on both the G3 and the Powerbook. The only time I need Sherlock is when I'm looking for something I haven't used in YEARS. And I run a meticulous double backup system (both CDRWs and Zip disks) too. Anyway, the point is, just because someone's computer is a mess doesn't necessarily mean his house is, or if her house is a mess, her computer is going to be as bad or worse. ;-) 2. Ahhhh, you're a pack rat. :-) So is my boyfriend -- and where housecleaning is concerned, next to him, I'm Martha Stewart. That horrifies people who've either seen my apartment or heard the stories... ;-) So, I'll "defend" your pack-ratting too. Besides, I'm a direct beneficiary of my boyfriend being a pack rat, and a bit of that is rubbing off on me now, at least so far as keeping spare computer stuff (monitors, mice, modems, my old 7200/120 and Powerbook 190 "just in case" my G3 and Powerbook 5300c die and I need a computer in a hurry) goes. <My 'method of housekeeping' as far as email is to leave 'mails of interest' that may require further attention in the in box. Might need those 'tools' soon. At least I'm a little bit consistent. FWIW, what I really like to do is a periodic purge by removing the entire in box to an archive copy of C.E. * Open stairway door and give tools a shove??? That has worked well for the last 2-3 years.> Mmmmm, well, letting the emails I want to hold on to for later reply or future reference go in Read Mail once I read them is sufficient for me. Once a week I file the contents of both Read Mail and Sent Mail into individual specific folders for regular correspondents and subjects (such as my Mac Lists folder, where I keep the useful information I get from the LEM lists and in here). I don't do any purges in my Emailer, though. I just delete the stuff I don't need to reply to or don't need to save right away -- as soon as I've finished reading it. I get anywhere from scores to hundreds of emails per day, about 300 per week (counting both Sent Mail and Read Mail) of which get filed in their folders, usually on Saturday mornings (at which time I also clean out the Downloads folder, too -- delete the junk, put away the good stuff). <I really would like to move onward towards "X" one of these days and am looking for a way to handle email as well as a few other programs before taking the leap. My future 'leap' will hopefully be more of a slow sideways step to a paralell machine and an emailer clone one way or another. I have 'heard' that going up to "X" can give grief to going 'back' to OS9 with the same copy of 9 that is running on OSX. The C.E. "DSStore problem" is the 'hint' of its validity that comes to mind most. Besides that, geez I love multimonitors on the old beige G3. Somebody will probably drag me kicking and screaming away from the current config unless ...> Oh, your G3 is a Beige, too? :-) Mine's a Rev 3 266 MHz (until Christmastime: my pack rat found a 350 MHz ZIF and plans to install it then) and 768 megs of RAM (he just swapped out my 128 and two 64 meg sticks for three 256 sticks which he found in his Big Box o'RAM...told ya, I think pack rats are great. :-D Anyway, I'm not on OS X yet either and if I do, it's debatable. Probably Claris Emailer will actually be my final deciding factor once I get that faster processor in, therefore giving me what I'd be comfortable with in terms of processor and RAM capacity for OS X. That is, if I can't run Emailer as well on OS X as I'm doing on 9.2.2 now, I don't want OS X. <Third, (* straining to try to find some 'on topic' somewhere in all this) look at what I got for a subject line below. I had to change it back for the reply. Of course the date sent still has the error that it always has had (1.1v3) >Subject: =?ascii?B?IC0gICBSZTogTWVtb3J5IFByb2Js?= =?ascii?B?ZW1z?= >Sent: 11/25/20 12:33 PM >Received: 11/30/05 1:36 PM >From: Yersinia, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Claris Emailer List, [email protected] Anybody else having this problem lately? I seem to be getting it on more than one mail list. Swap list had a couple of them come through like that lately too. Beginning to wonder if I just need to do a C.E. clean up program.> OMG! I've never seen that before. Then again, I'm using C.E. 2.0v3, not 1.1v3. Well, OK, I do have 1.1v1 (I think) on my Powerbook 190 (too lazy to power it on to check right now), but still, I've never seen that. So, what's a C.E. clean up program? <Cute Sig Yersinia. Some people actually think you're a .....??? ...and I thought we were getting along fine! *giving Martin the 'evil eye' *grin!> :-) Thank you....um, they think I'm a WHAT?? ;-) At least give me a chance to set the record straight here! ~Yersinia<----the sewer rat who nicknamed herself after Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the plague.... ________ "My answer to the covers-every-occasion statement about men's mistakes that 'it's in their genes' is that if they didn't have in their jeans what they've got in their jeans, we'd leave them cold, hungry and naked." ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
