[h-cost] RE: Prefixes for headers?

2006-07-18 Thread otsisto
The RE: or Re: in the subject line = reply and tends to be automatic with most if not all computers. From my understanding. -Original Message- Not being a computer person, I don't know if this is possible: When you have a "reply" to a post, whether it is a contribution or just a complimen

[h-cost] OT: Chico CA

2006-07-18 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Anything good to do in Chico? I *will* be there starting next weekend for a few days. susan - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ ___ h-cos

Re: [h-cost] Elizabethan doublet issues

2006-07-18 Thread Robert Dorr
Could this be because of added weight at the upper chest and back? Can you put inserts into the center back or back side seams to widen the back? Dawn Oh, d'oh, I never thought of weight on the back...I can't do anything with centre back, but, I may be able to tweak where the armhole meets the

Re: [h-cost] invisible zip (ok, not v. historic!)

2006-07-18 Thread Cin
In a message dated 7/17/2006 12:09:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions? (polite ones thank you). No sign of zips this colour in the locale so I could always take it out and put in a regular one but this is so cool and makes it look like just another seam..

[h-cost] h-cost: subject lines & reinventing the wheel

2006-07-18 Thread Lavolta Press
>To be honest, I can't see how anyone finds the second or two it takes >to realise a message isn't worth reading a real and serious drain on >their time (since I get the digest). You've heard my opinions on digests versus filters. >If I'm too busy, I just let the mail pile up and get on with w

Re: [h-cost] Elizabethan doublet issues

2006-07-18 Thread Dawn
Robert Dorr wrote: The doublet still fits through the body, butthey no longer fit at the collarbone, which is an odd spot for a fitting issue. I can't fasten the buttons, even after moving them onto the edge binding, so that some of the smock shows behind the buttonhole. Could this be

[h-cost] Re: exhibit of interest

2006-07-18 Thread Beth and Bob Matney
Thanks for the additional details, Robin. I have an email to the Whitworth already on the way... Beth > Clothing Culture: Dress in Egypt in the First Millennium AD > I'll have to track down a copy of the catalogue! Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:00:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Robin Netherton I have a fl

[h-cost] Elizabethan doublet issues

2006-07-18 Thread Robert Dorr
Hello, I post rarely, but I do have a question, and due to the heat, or just natural issues with geometry, I'm having a problem with Margot Anderson's doublet pattern. I've sewn up a number of them, the sewing goes great, and they used to fit before I put on some weight. The doublet still fits

Re: [h-cost] RE: subject lines

2006-07-18 Thread Robin Netherton
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote: > I also like Yahoo lists because you can drop in and read emails now > and then whenever you feel like it, without receiving messages > automatically, or you can receive them automatically if you prefer. > Yahoo also keeps archives. H-cost is now arch

RE: [h-cost] Bodiced Petticoats - Regency

2006-07-18 Thread sunshine_buchler
I'm making a bodiced petticoat, based off of the picture in _The History of Underclothes_ by the Cunnington's. Unfortunately, it's from the 1820s but it was the only picture of a bodiced petticoat I could find (the others were all re-drawings), so that's why I went with that one. If you have pic

Re: [h-cost] an open note to Fran [others don't read it if you don't want to]

2006-07-18 Thread Lavolta Press
I know you didn't mean a personal attack on me, Albert. Which was why I was unable to resist saying that--I knew you wouldn't take it as one either. And I would hope you know I think you're a valuable list member too. So, how do you feel about a FLAME: prefix? Fran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

[h-cost] Flat caps...

2006-07-18 Thread cahuff
HI Not to interrupt the subject line discussion or anything but how late were the 'flat caps' (ones that look like a short stack) worn? In England? In the American Colonies? I've seen a ref on the web that suggests they lingered in London long enough to become a slang ID for Londoners, but n

Re: [h-cost] RE: subject lines

2006-07-18 Thread Lavolta Press
Unless a person is receiving digest format, in which case you get all the good and bad anyway, scan subjects, and choose from there. That is why I find individual messages to be more efficient than digests. You can set up a mail folder for a specific e-group, and have all messages f

[h-cost] an open note to Fran [others don't read it if you don't want to]

2006-07-18 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 7/18/2006 1:16:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, now we can all go back to flaming each other and asking for discussions to be killed whenever =someone gets bored. *** The initial discussion was actually OK...but it went

Re: [h-cost] exhibit of interest

2006-07-18 Thread Robin Netherton
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Beth and Bob Matney wrote: > Unfortunately, we are not going to the UK this year, but this exhibit in > Manchester looks quite interesting: > Clothing Culture: Dress in Egypt in the First Millennium AD > http://www.whitworth.man.ac.uk/collections/search/display-exh/index.htm

[h-cost] exhibit of interest

2006-07-18 Thread Beth and Bob Matney
Dear Julian, Unfortunately, we are not going to the UK this year, but this exhibit in Manchester looks quite interesting: Clothing Culture: Dress in Egypt in the First Millennium AD http://www.whitworth.man.ac.uk/collections/search/display-exh/index.htm?irn=858&QueryPage=%2Fcollections%2Fsearch

Re: [h-cost] RE: subject lines

2006-07-18 Thread Ingrid G . Storrø
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Five Rivers Chapmanry wrote: > Not to be a wet blanket, but people don't change subject lines. They > aren't going to use prefixes with any consistency either. Not here. It may be possible that it's a lost cause. But couldn't we try? :) If everyone spent thirty seconds m

RE: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-18 Thread Sharon at Collierfam.com
Not being a computer person, I don't know if this is possible: When you have a "reply" to a post, whether it is a contribution or just a compliment, would it be possible to make the computer automatically put a "reply" notice in the topic window, along with the original topic line? -Original M

[h-cost] h-cost: subject lines & reinventing the wheel

2006-07-18 Thread katherine sanders
Fran wrote: >My opinions are as valid as yours. Ditto, which is why I suggested simply skimming/deleting. To be honest, I can't see how anyone finds the second or two it takes to realise a message isn't worth reading a real and serious drain on their time (since I get the digest). If I'm too

[h-cost] RE: subject lines

2006-07-18 Thread Five Rivers Chapmanry
Fran wrote: Anyone who wishes is welcome to filter out all my emails by my sender address, or any other means their email program or ISP supports. Unless a person is receiving digest format, in which case you get all the good and bad anyway, scan subjects, and choose from there. The fac