Re: RC: Re: Stupid question

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi David
OK, so that I don't have to type this lengthy ending on all my email, I
thought I would be really clever and go into Netscape preferences and I
found a signature card address and I used notepad to compose the sig. I
was so proud of myself for figuring it out (everything I do with the
computer has been by trial and error, including my web page, and more
error than trial). So now I went to reply to you and show off my new
"patented" signature, and it showed up (I FINALLY found it) at the very
BOTTOM of the post below your message which I quoted. So that I can have
a life again and don't have to experiment for hours can you please tell
me if there is anyway to move it up to before the quoted previous post
to which I am replying? My last formal computer course (outside of a
quick self paced Windows class) was Fortran in College where we had
little cards we put through after hours of waiting in line and they were
promptly spit out if we misplaced a comma, period, whatever. Oh,oh, now
you know I'm not sweet 16 and yes we had indoor plumbing when I was
growing up! I'm using Netscape for mail and Fortran is NO help!
Any help you or anyone else can shed on the subject (isn't there anyone
else out there who needs signature coaching???) would be greatly
appreciated as my typing speed is about 20 wpm on a good day and I can't
continue ding the sig longhand.
Thanks
Bette Lamore
YADDA YADDA --Hey it's below at the bottom of the page!

> At 08:14 PM 1/2/00 -0800, Bette Lamore wrote:
> 
> >You know my friend Linda Hedgpeth on ridecamp was just telling me that I
> >should put my location and web page address under my name as a
> >signature. I just didn't want anyone to think I was advertising every
> >time I wanted to post; but Linda tells me that it is customary. What do
> >I know; I'm new in this town.
> 
> Most mail readers have a way to append a signature. Known as a .sig,
> because back in the bad old days we all had UNIX shell [command line]
> accounts, and it went in the .signature file.  According to the ancient (in
> internet years, anyway) etiquette of USENET, a .sig should be no longer
> than 4 lines, so your's fits nicely.  The 4 lines comes from way back when
> we had very, very slow modems, and people complained if your mail took up
> too much space - seems an odd concern these days.  It's a good place to put
> your e-mail address, web page if you have one (maybe I ought to put one
> together...), and maybe a witty saying that you like.  The one I use these
> days is pretty bland, but I used to use:
> 
> David LeBlanc           |Why would you want to have your desktop user,
> dleblanc@mindspring.com |your mere mortals, messing around with a 32-bit
>                         |minicomputer-class computing environment?
>                         |Scott McNealy
> 
> This is a quote from the CEO of Sun Microsystems, and I think it pretty
> well sums up the arrogance of the old glass house priesthood, since I think
> that everyone ('mere mortals' indeed!) ought to have a "32-bit
> minicomputer-class computing environment" to mess around with, use, and do
> whatever strikes their fancy.
> 
> Its normally considered acceptable to advertise a little in your .sig, but
> really densely packed marketing text isn't polite - your's is just right.
> I've also seen people draw fairly neat ASCII art and do some nifty things
> in just 4 lines.
> 
> David LeBlanc
> dleblanc@mindspring.com

-- 
Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of TLA Halynov
Central Coast California
http://www.stormnet.com/~woa
SEE?SEE?HERE IT IS WAY DOWN HERE!!!!


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