Re: [Evolution] Evo hangs with one particular email

Matt Vanderveer Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:10:54 -0700

On 05 Jul 2001 10:29:18 -0700, Karel P Kerezman wrote:
> On 05 Jul 2001 13:14:34 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On 05 Jul 2001 13:03:53 -0400, Matt Vanderveer wrote:
> > > I'm running today's (July 5) Evo snapshot on RH 7.1.  I received a text
> > > email from the NY Times today that is apparently funky.  If I try to
> > > read, delete or do any other operation on it, Evo freezes and I have to
> > > kill it.  Can someone please tell me how to delete this email?  Aside
> > > from this minor inconvenience, Evo is doing well.
> 
> > P.S. I can't be certain, but your best bet on getting it out of your
> > inbox is probably to use another mailer. :/ This is why we'd like to see
> > it ourselves so we can fix it.
> 
> I have had on-again-off-again issues with PGP/GPG-signed mail. Some time
> ago it was pointed out to me that switching to View As Source (Okay,
> View | Message Display | Show Email Source in the current snapshot
> menus) lets me deal with party-crasher messages. Just something to think
> about... =)
>  
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Good call Karel.  Viewing as source was all it took.  As it turns out,
it was an html email.  The NY Times doesn't seem to be too consistant.
Sometimes they send text and others HTML, regardless of your config with
them.  Go figure.  Anyhoo, I've not had problems with other HTML mail
today.  This problem looks similar to a previous gtkhtml related
problem.  I've attached the email in question for the developers'
perusal.

Thanks for the help,

Matt
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I'm getting to be a pretty good liar.

<P>

It began innocently enough. I started using Apple's iMovie software to edit my 
camcorder footage about two years ago. I was really excited about the program's 
ability to slice, dice and rearrange the scenes. Once I'd edited out the boring, 
poorly lit and inaudible shots, I knew I had tightly edited, highly entertaining home 
movies that friends and family would actually be eager to watch.

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You can't really blame me for the first bit of deception. I taped our two-year-old son 
riding a kiddie train. Unfortunately, he'd been cranky and uncooperative for much of 
the shoot. I edited out that unpleasant portion and used only the segments I'd shot 
after he cheered up.

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True, my movie would no longer reflect reality. I had, in effect, rewritten history, 
violating the idea that a camcorder captures our real-life experiences. Still, I 
didn't think friends and neighbors would want to watch a two-year-old having a hissy 
fit.

<P>

Next, I edited together footage from three different shots: One that I'd filmed from 
inside the train car looking out the window, another I'd shot of my son's face next to 
me and a third I shot from the sidelines as the train rolled by. By cutting together 
these three sections of tape, I created what looked like a single ride around the 
tracks that had been professionally filmed with three different cameras. Of course, 
that impression was a lie -- but a harmless one, I was sure. 

<P>

These days, I've lost all sense of video guilt. If I can create a great moment by 
shuffling around events, I'll do it. If a funny scene plays better when I drop in shot 
of a listener's reaction that wasn't even filmed the same day, I go for it. And by 
dropping a happy Vivaldi recording underneath the video, I can make a stressful, 
leaky-diaper, screaming-baby day seem like one of the most sunlit, joyful days on 
earth.

<P>

Everyone's home movies are selective, of course. Nobody bothers to film the quarrels, 
the whining or the boring parts of our lives. But programs like iMovie give us to 
tools to distort reality to even more ridiculous extremes. We're encouraged by the 
marketers to make Hollywood shorts out of our home-movie footage. But Hollywood movies 
are understood to be escapist fantasies, not a record of our real lives.

<P>

These days, friends and family really do like watching my (edited) home movies, and 
why not? What they see are hilarious, orchestrally accompanied, seven-minute highlight 
rolls. For the moment, I'm not losing sleep over it. I keep the original footage just 
in case my kids grow up and want to know what life was really like. But in the age of 
iMovie and Photoshop, increasing numbers of people are freely touching up their photos 
and movies, creating a past that never was. 

<P>

On the other hand, maybe there's nothing wrong with that. We've got enough to worry 
about in the present and future. Maybe it's just as well we edit the past so that it, 
at least, looks rosy.

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<i>Visit David Pogue on the Web at </i><A 

href="http://www.davidpogue.com";>DavidPogue.com</a>.

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