[Newbies] Re: Beginners questions

2006-11-08 Thread Klaus D. Witzel

Hi Jeff,

this is because you post in the HTML format, in which your messages  
appears quite nice


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http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.beginners/1368


But all these mailing lists are run in plain text mode. So perhaps you  
switch your mail client to plain text mode, like we all do, and everybody  
will be happy :)


/Klaus

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:22:59 +0100, Jeffhombreviii@myway.com wrote:

I've noticed on the list my mailings don't seem to parse correctly. I  
don't know why that is, but I can't blame you for not being tempted to  
wade through them. I wouldn't be either. If anyone can tall me how to  
solve this, I'd appreciate it.Thanks,Jeff --- On Wed 11/08, lanas lt;  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gt; wrote:From: lanas [mailto:  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wed, 8  
Nov 2006 07:27:57 -0500Subject: Re: [Newbies] Beginners questionsLe  
Lundi 6 Novembre 2006 18:09, Jeff a écrit :gt; Hello group!I'm hoping  
that this beginners list is a good place for agt; beginner to get  
answers to... well, beginner's questions. And so, with thatgt; in mind,  
I'll ask a few questions. But first, experience has taught me thatgt; I  
should be a little more clear in what I'm looking for as an answer.gt;  
Imagine a total newbie to computers asked a group of experts the qu
 estiongt; quot;How do I run a program under windows?quot;. One  
member of the groupgt;
decided to respond by handing him a 400 page technical manual on  
windowsgt; and telling him that everything he wants to know is in  
there. Upon seeinggt; that the rest of the group decides that his  
question has been answered andgt; sees no need to offer additional  
assistance. This newbie's question wasn'tgt; actually answered by the  
group, ultimately what they did was say quot;askgt; the manualquot;.  
The manual naturally can't hear him so it can't directlygt; respond to  
his question, he has to start searching it. After skimming agt; bunch  
of pages and not seeing what he's looking for, (or anything hegt;  
understands), he looks in the index. It isn't there. He looks in the  
tablegt; of contents to see a chapter called quot;Getting started  
withgt; windowsquot;. Thinking that looks like what he needs, he flips  
to it andgt; it starts out by telling him that the first thing he nee
 ds to do is installgt; windows. Ok, so he looks for this Windows disk.  
[snip]For what
it's worth, your message appeared as a large chunck of dense text (worse  
than quoted above) without any paragraphs, filling the windows' text  
screen like a wall brick.I must be frank and I must say that it was not  
tempting to wade through and read it.This being said, no, I can't answer  
your question  
;-)Cheers,Al___Beginners  
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Re: [Newbies] Re: Beginners questions

2006-11-08 Thread Giovanni Corriga
Il giorno mer, 08/11/2006 alle 19.30 +0100, Klaus D. Witzel ha scritto:
 Hi Jeff,
 
 this is because you post in the HTML format, in which your messages  
 appears quite nice
 
 -  
 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.beginners/1368
 
 But all these mailing lists are run in plain text mode. So perhaps you  
 switch your mail client to plain text mode, like we all do, and everybody  
 will be happy :)

Yes, most of the subscribers of this mailing list send their messages in
plain text.

Jeff, if you wish to send messages in HTML, you may go to you membership
options page and change your settings. But please note that changing
that won't have any effect on those who reply to you and convert your
messages from HTML to text.

Ciao,

Giovanni

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