Hello Miguel, On Sunday, January 19, 2003, 5:25 AM, you wrote:
MB>> I hear you loud and clear, Miguel. And it is a joy to listen! M> It's nice to be able to send e-mail with a sound background, isn't it? M> Now all we need is HTML so can also send colour backgrounds ;-) Now, Miguel! I was using a figure of speech. I am so text-oriented, that I do not even play music while on the computer. (I have a sister who runs classical CDs as she does genealogy. And a cousin who runs a movie in the corner of her screen while she works.) How they tolerate it, I have no idea. One task at a time is how my brain works. :) BTW (by the way :) ), I have The Bat! configured to open attachments in the message body. I get those horrid colored backgrounds. One newbie on Rootsweb's COMPUTERS-L,, in another English-speaking country, describing herself as a grandmother--like me--sent a query in lime-green font on yellow. It sat unanswered for several hours, so I sent a response. Back came a private thank you, pink font on deep rose red, with dancing roses and hearts--near about put my eyes out. Two pages long, also. If I had had my sound volume up, no doubt it would have disabled my ears, too! And she's obviously a very nice person, with no idea how what she did was affecting *me*. I configured The Bat! to show me HTML that way, because of the sisters and cousin whose messages come only as HTML attachments. I am so thankful to read your messages in plain text. "Loud and clear" was originally an Air Force expression, except it was "read you loud and clear." Passed into common speech here in my country. It is hard to anticipate how idioms and cultural references may not be intelligible to others. I guess it's something similar to the almost automatic use of acronyms by tech-speakers. :) I will try to watch out about it better. :) -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
