From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org ([63.224.68.2] ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16WqEo-0003Dj-00 for ; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 21:49:10 -0500 Received: from localhost (wacker@localhost) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g122nDF04162 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 02:49:13 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: wb2flw.octothorp.org: wacker owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 19:49:13 -0700 (MST) From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: apology to the list In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Very strange. When I started my reply to this message, Pine wanted to send two copies also. Must be something in the headers. I agree with you, Chuck as well as Brian. But I've just gotta ask. Do we have to have the ASCII art that recently started appearing at the bottom of your messages? What's it supposed to represent? 73. Bill On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > I see my last message came around twice; sorry for that. Somehow > I ended up replying to the list with a CC to the list. > > While we are bitching about things, my own pet peeve is email > messages full of typos and spellos. You folks with eyes usually > compensate automatically for such nonsense, but those of us who > rely on speech synthesizers are cursed (blessed?) with a device > that tells us exactly what it sees. I have recently implemented a > short script which is invoked as an alternate editor by pine > instead of its regular composer. That script first calls a real > editor ("nano" in my case) and then it calls "ispell" against the > same file. I automatically have to spell check my compositions > before pine will let me send them. If anybody wants more details > (hint hint, KW!) I will be glad to supply them. > > This list is getting to be a pain in the ass to read lately, but > I presume the mood will change when the phase of the moon changes > or something.