ADMIN/OFF: What's happened?

[Keith Henderson]

Goran (who knows far more than I) wrote:

>>But then it was also nice to have the boc-l indicator there to distinguish
>>these from the other mailing lists I'm on.
>
>Well, my crystal ball says you use ancient Eudora 1.4.4.

Your crystal ball would be correct.  And ancient?  HA!  You think *that's*
ancient.  I use software regularly that's five or six generations old (by
choice).  But that's just because I don't support planned obsolescence.  And
because I believe simpler is often better.  I use DOS-keystroke commands in
Lotus (still accepted in Lotus 5.0 for Windows, which I call 'new', though
I'm sure that's old also), and can do commands faster than I (or you) can
follow them on the screen.  Several times faster than any mouse can do,
anyway.  Why should I change?

By the way, I hate Eudora.  I used to do email on old 286's (the only thing
they were good for anymore) when I had a log-in account (no unnecessary
Windows 'baggage'), and was far happier than I am now.  Of course, the
university couldn't handle the load, so we all were forced to switch to pop
accounts two years ago.  I've never recovered, and have yet to figure out
how to post a message to a USENET newsgroup.  (I admit that I now discover I
really don't care about that, or else I would've tried harder.)

I'm just a dumb geochemist anyway, and have never owned a computer.  The
ones I use at work are always hand-me-downs (always two generations
old...now *finally* a Pentium I at least, though with Windows 3.11 still).

>Does it have
>auto-filtering/filing feature in a special folder dedicated to a
>particular group, if some header field is recognized during receiving
>mail? That would solve a whole lotta problems you have.

I don't think so.  I don't want to filter anything anyway.  I 'filter' what
I want by not reading it.  Keeping up with the Jonses in the computer world
is not my bag...in fact, I tend to resist only but the most substantive
'upgrades'.  Much of the rest is just bells and whistles.  For instance,
webpages that have all this flashing crap, and frames, and JAVA shit just
freeze my machine, and I simply don't go to their sites ever again.
Worthless crap IMHO.  And I don't think I have a 'whole lotta problems', I
just mentioned something I thought might be a bit better in my antiquated
mind.  And actually, I was more worried that something was still wrong with
the SJC system, and thought my minor situation may be indicative of some
error or something.  I now realize I'm just terribly ignorant, and won't
'complain' anymore (now that my anti-technology rant is over). :)

Keith H. (FAA)

My adage:  If it takes more than 5 versions of a software before they get it
right, I don't want it in the first place.  :)

P.S.  I've got a 5 1/4 diskdrive on my machine.  That should tell you
something about how we work around here.  The unfortunate thing is, my
CD-ROM drive won't read wax cylinders.  :(