[LegacyUG] Please Truncate Your Mail

2008-02-01 Thread Mary Young
How about a New Year's Resolution for LUG Members? Before pressing "Send", spare a second to cut your mail to the essentials. Please strip out all the Legacy footers, and clip out repeated old messages. You will be blessed - at least by me :-) Regards Mary Young Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-20 Thread Laurence E Stephenson
Phil Hawkins wrote: Kirstin Martinez wrote: I use Thunderbird. Is there a way to automatically add the hyphen hyphen space in thunderbird? Hi Kirsten I use THunderbird also and according to it's website/forum thers is no way of adding a automatic signature file to email with Thunderbird. The

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-20 Thread Phil Hawkins
Ed Lawler wrote: Thanks Ed for putting me straight I had looked for that information a coouple of days ago and read the website wrong - obviously! (Now let's see if it works -- Phil Hawkins (Rather be Fishing) Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-20 Thread Phil Hawkins
Kirstin Martinez wrote: I use Thunderbird. Is there a way to automatically add the hyphen hyphen space in thunderbird? IGNORE my previous post! I should have read all the mail before responding Jumped in with both feet! Phil -- Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe h

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-20 Thread Phil Hawkins
Kirstin Martinez wrote: I use Thunderbird. Is there a way to automatically add the hyphen hyphen space in thunderbird? Hi Kirsten I use THunderbird also and according to it's website/forum thers is no way of adding a automatic signature file to email with Thunderbird. There is some info on ad

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Lawler
Kirsten, You can add a signature without using an extension. Use the following steps: 1. Create a text file to contain your signature in an appropriate place ("My Documents", etc.). 2. In the signature file, add "-- " on a line by itself as the *first* line. Add any other lines that you want

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-20 Thread Wendy Howard
"I use Thunderbird. Is there a way to automatically add the hyphen hyphen space in thunderbird?" I don't know about "automatically", but what I do is keep a draft email (subject: signatures) in the Templates folder with the various signatures I use at times, along with some URLs that I use alm

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-20 Thread Gene Young
Kirstin Martinez wrote: I use Thunderbird. Is there a way to automatically add the hyphen hyphen space in thunderbird? There is an add on for Thunderbird called Signature which can be installed from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/578. Just create a custom signature with the h

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-20 Thread Kirstin Martinez
I use Thunderbird. Is there a way to automatically add the hyphen hyphen space in thunderbird? -- Kirstin Mike Fry wrote: Mike Fry wrote: Wayne Martell wrote: Millenia could do its part by minimizing the amount they tack on at the end of each message. I see no reason why it has to be more th

RE: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-06 Thread Valeris Garton
in Dublin, Wicklow & Wexford - please ??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Martell Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2007 5:26 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail Millenia c

RE: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-05 Thread Helen Barton
Hi, I'm just testing the system to see if I modified program to delete the previous message when I reply. Testing! Helen Barton Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfam

RE: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-02 Thread Paul A.
Krisjan, Yes, you are getting what you paid for and MUCH MUCH more. At least they are providing the list which they certainly do not have to do and it has provided people with far more than what it would have been worth if we had to pay for it. People get things for nothing and still find a reas

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Fry
Mary Brenzel wrote: Since when is 'hyphen hyphen space' a standard signature start line? I never heard of such a thing. Since the beginning of USENET, and email i.e. since the start of the 'Net. Before launching into use of the internet, people should have taken time to find out what it's re

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Krisjan
01, 2007 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail And then again, Since Millenia is providing this forum to us all at NO COST to us, I think it is in really poor taste to chastise them for a little advertising in the forum that THEY pay for and we get for FREE. Grow up chi

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Gene Young
Mike Fry wrote: Gene Young wrote: Mike Fry wrote: Mike Fry wrote: Wayne Martell wrote: Millenia could do its part by minimizing the amount they tack on at the end of each message. I see no reason why it has to be more than 1 line, 2 at the most. And then again, Since Millenia is provi

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread myrna20
Even better would be if people would set up their "options" to uncheck the box for "include message in reply". That is available in all of the e-mail programs I use. Then if I DO want to snip part of the message and include it I can do that. Otherwise NONE of the OPs message is included. Much b

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Fry
Gene Young wrote: Mike Fry wrote: Mike Fry wrote: Wayne Martell wrote: Millenia could do its part by minimizing the amount they tack on at the end of each message. I see no reason why it has to be more than 1 line, 2 at the most. And then again, Since Millenia is providing this forum to us

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Marie Peer
Thank you for your thoughts, Gene. I heartily agree with all of your observations. On 8/1/2007 5:40:37 AM, Gene Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mike Fry wrote: > > Mike Fry wrote: > >> Wayne Martell wrote: > >>> Millenia could do its part by minimizing the amount they tack on at > >>> the end

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Gene Young
Mike Fry wrote: Mike Fry wrote: Wayne Martell wrote: Millenia could do its part by minimizing the amount they tack on at the end of each message. I see no reason why it has to be more than 1 line, 2 at the most. And then again, Since Millenia is providing this forum to us all at NO COST to

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Fry
Mike Fry wrote: Wayne Martell wrote: Millenia could do its part by minimizing the amount they tack on at the end of each message. I see no reason why it has to be more than 1 line, 2 at the most. If it was formatted to proper signature standards, most 'real' email readers would automatically

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Mary Young
On 8/1/07, Mike Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it was formatted to proper signature standards, most 'real' email > readers would automatically truncate the Millennia 'signature'. I still > don't see why the Millennia-added lines can't be preceded by the > standard 'hyphen hyphen space' line. S

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Fry
Wayne Martell wrote: Millenia could do its part by minimizing the amount they tack on at the end of each message. I see no reason why it has to be more than 1 line, 2 at the most. If it was formatted to proper signature standards, most 'real' email readers would automatically truncate the Mil

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Mary Young
On 8/1/07, Wayne Martell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Millenia could do its part by minimizing the amount they tack on at the end > of each message. I see no reason why it has to be more than 1 line, 2 at the > most. Yes, that would help - but my main problem is repetition and chaining of old stuff

Re: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-01 Thread Wayne Martell
: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:43 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail Hello Pretty please, take pity on those of us on dialup - take a few seconds to truncate your mail - you don't need to keep two screens' worth of previous messages and those l

[LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-07-31 Thread Mary Young
Hello Pretty please, take pity on those of us on dialup - take a few seconds to truncate your mail - you don't need to keep two screens' worth of previous messages and those long Legacy footers (some mails are showing 4 or 5 sets of footers). Reiterations make threaded mail really slow and irksome