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 < lanas@securenet.net > wrote:From: lanas [mailto: lanas@securenet.net]To: beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.orgDate: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:27:57 -0500Subject: Re: [Newbies] Beginners questionsLe Lundi 6 Novembre 2006 18:09, Jeff a écrit� :> Hello group!I'm hoping that this beginners list is a good place for a> beginner to get answers to... well, beginner's questions. And so, with that> in mind, I'll ask a few questions. But first, experience has taught me that> I should be a little more clear in what I'm looking for as an answer.> Imagine a total newbie to computers asked a group of experts the question> "How do I run a program under windows?". One member of the group> decided to respond by handing him a 400 page technical manual on windows> and telling him that everything he wants to know is in there. Upon seeing> that the rest of the group decides that his question has been answered and> sees no need to offer additional assistance. This newbie's question wasn't> actually answered by the group, ultimately what they did was say "ask> the manual". The manual naturally can't hear him so it can't directly> respond to his question, he has to start searching it. After skimming a> bunch of pages and not seeing what he's looking for, (or anything he> understands), he looks in the index. It isn't there. He looks in the table> of contents to see a chapter called "Getting started with> windows". Thinking that looks like what he needs, he flips to it and> it starts out by telling him that the first thing he needs to do is install> 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 mailing listBeginners@lists.squeakfoundation.orghttp://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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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 :)
/Klaus
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:22:59 +0100, <""Jeff"<hombreviii"@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 < lanas@securenet.net > wrote:From: lanas [mailto: lanas@securenet.net]To: beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.orgDate: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:27:57 -0500Subject: Re: [Newbies] Beginners questionsLe Lundi 6 Novembre 2006 18:09, Jeff a écrit :> Hello group!I'm hoping that this beginners list is a good place for a> beginner to get answers to... well, beginner's questions. And so, with that> in mind, I'll ask a few questions. But first, experience has taught me that> I should be a little more clear in what I'm looking for as an answer.> Imagine a total newbie to computers asked a group of experts the qu estion> "How do I run a program under windows?". One member of the group> decided to respond by handing him a 400 page technical manual on windows> and telling him that everything he wants to know is in there. Upon seeing> that the rest of the group decides that his question has been answered and> sees no need to offer additional assistance. This newbie's question wasn't> actually answered by the group, ultimately what they did was say "ask> the manual". The manual naturally can't hear him so it can't directly> respond to his question, he has to start searching it. After skimming a> bunch of pages and not seeing what he's looking for, (or anything he> understands), he looks in the index. It isn't there. He looks in the table> of contents to see a chapter called "Getting started with> windows". Thinking that looks like what he needs, he flips to it and> it starts out by telling him that the first thing he nee ds to do is install> 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 mailing listBeginners@lists.squeakfoundation.orghttp://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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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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