Hello: I'm going to be a phantom pin-holer for a while...I have this need to understand things technically pretty well before I experiment, so I can evaluate relative failures! (Engineering background does that to you).
My suggestion is aimed at improving the readability of the digest form of the list. I belong to some other lists, and some have some rules/guidelines that have developed out of readability issues and apparently some Internet users (wireless?) and in Europe pay for the amount of data they receive. Suggestion #1: When responding to someone else's message (creating a "thread"), delete any message content you don't absolutely need to re-forward. Otherwise, it gets sent again and again and again...my first digest had 9 messages but was 18 pages printed out. Some messages had been forwarded 3 or 4 times (>>>> before text). Doing this will cut alot of clutter, improve readability and save some trees. Suggestion #2: If you are a regular email list participant, make sure your email software has it's forwarding set for plain text rather than HTML. HTML makes for pretty stationery and formatting in email, but it's horrible in listserver email lists. Sorry to pick on list member Joel, because his name appears in a message at the beginning of the digest volume 381, but an example of what I'm talking about follows below...all the 'garbage characters' are html-formatted text being partially digested (gross, isn't it?) by the list processor. Example of forwarded HTML-formatted text passed thru list processor. --part1_76.ce569cb.287df9bf_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When you exhibit your pinhole (or any other) photographs at a gallery, etc....what rules apply to needing written releases from people and property owners? Joel --part1_76.ce569cb.287df9bf_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>When you exhibit your pinhole (or any other) photographs at a gallery, <BR>etc....what rules apply to needing written releases from people and property <BR>owners? <BR> <BR>Joel</FONT></HTML> If anyone needs me to explain how to set up IE, Netscape Messenger or Opera browsers to clean up their email, or find it tedious to delete huge portions of a message and want a tip to make it easier, please email me. If there is a consensus that it would be a good idea for me to explain any of this on-list, let me know. (Almost) lastly, so my message has some pinhole-related content, I am reading pinhole theory and looking at different camera results in anticipation of converting an old Kodak SLR with a very slow shutter by replacing the lens with a pinhole. Lastly, at last, what is meant by 'optimal' hole pinhole diameter? What happens when one strays from 'optimal'? Thanks all - further posts will be less computer and more camera. Murray Leshner [email protected] Uptown Gallery & Frame Shop, LLC Holland MI www.uptowngallery.org
