Hello Allen! On Friday, September 03, 2004, 10:00 AM, you wrote:
AD>>> As for :: v. <>, I really don't care either way. ... MB>> That was the impression I had in regard to many who are using MB>> Plain Text View, when the discussion took place on tbbeta. AD> Right--from plain-text side, it matters little as it's, either AD> way, just a couple of characters to let us know we needn't spend AD> too much time trying to extract conversational value from the AD> encased characters. It's more an issue for those in the habit of AD> composing mail utilizing the emotive functionality. Then let's see if we hear from any of them on my little poll. < ... > MB>> And here, your tag line: AD tagline>>> < ... > -Wallace Stevens MB>> You are quoting one of my favorite poets here, and somehow it seems MB>> tangentially like a cookidence ... AD> He's one of my favorites, as well--the quote perfectly captured my AD> sentiment on authoring poetry. Suggestion. The same idea can work AD> well in conversation, as well, of course . . . It's one of the delights of having conversation with quick-witted people, like the ones so frequently encountered on the TB! mailing lists. :) AD> Cookidence has been rather frequent, of late--Starting to wonder AD> if RL haven't swiped google's adsense relevency calculator for AD> "random" cookie selection :-) Something might indeed be going on! There *are* more things than are "dreamed of," as Hamlet once so well observed in a discussion of ghosts! -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 3.0 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
