Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-15 Thread Shawn P. Stanley
I worked with a man who had no middle name (Vankatesh Presaud), but the networking people needed a middle initial because three letters were required for a login. So he was given an I as a middle initial for network access, and became VIP. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Philip Newton

Re: The subversive 'open' on the OLPC

2008-01-20 Thread Shawn P. Stanley
Good points, but I think you failed to detect her sarcasm. On Jan 20, 2008 1:55 AM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Ann Barcomb writes: Eventually I saw http://wiki.laptop.org/go/New_Users and learnt that No activity can open a file. You have to use the Journal activity to open a

Mail clients that abuse the Sender: line

2006-10-04 Thread Shawn P. Stanley
Gmail uses the Sender: line to show which Gmail account you're sending from regardless of how you've configured your From: or Reply-To: lines. Just in case anyone cares about your Gmail account. But why should they, unless you're dealing in kiddie p0rn? So why do Outlook, Outlook Express,