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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:18:47 -0800, "ISIS" <I…@pyramid.com> wrote: >Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives you the >privilege of being included in every forward that family members come >across? I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for me. >I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to include me >either. How do these things make you guys feel?
Keep your delete key well oiled 
I have over a dozen family members and a great many friends who send things my way. I think it is wonderful to be reading something that causes me to break out in laughter or touches my heart. Still, it is unfortunate that some people cannot take time to clear up the quoting before hitting their forward button … things with multiple levels of quoting done wrong are too much trouble to decipher. People would be better advised to use their copy and paste functions instead of forwarding … unless they have the redirect option (Eudora) that does not put quote characters in the message. Before I pass on jokes or other interesting material, I strip all quote characters and then unwrap the lines so that every mail client will display the message clearly. Perhaps 10% of what comes my way is worth passing on… it is like joke central here What I do not like is getting on people’s joke lists but never having any personal communication … the jokes are fine but they do not take the place of keeping in touch once in a while with personal notes. I also am very cautious with attachments … I follow a virus newsgroup to see what evil new things are roaming loose in the wild and use up-to-date virus checking but no virus checker will catch all the Trojans lurking around, often with the same names as safe executables. Yep, optical.exe (from someone here) is cute and safe but there now is a worm with the same name …. that is like the frog in the blender – I got a safe version (yeah, it is a little sick) but then someone added a virus to the same executable … this kind of thing just confuses the issue even more. If you have limited space in your ISP’s incoming mailbox or if you have a slow 14.4kbps modem or cannot hold long connections, you might ask friends not to send .avi or other huge files. When my sister got her scanner, she did not realize just how huge those .bmp files were; now she knows how to compress them into .jpgs Floridanewbie
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Thanks! I didn’t think of that….but, you know what? I found out my ex’s email address and sent my son email there because she had his address attached….then he got mad and changed it….now she messed up again and I have it again!! LOL Oh. I didn’t tell you….he doesn’t want me having his email address. I won’t use it this time….but it’s just funny that she keeps doing that! ISIS "Sourdough" <sourdo…@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
news:qDPA4.1066$L5.16394@newsfeed.slurp.net… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I notice that you are using Outlook Express. Have you considered setting > up "rules" to send messages from certain people, or containing certain > words, to separate folders? > I do this with several listbot newsletters that I receive. Rather than > having them cluttering up my inbox, I have them automatically stored in > a separate folder that I review when I have spare time. > To do this, go to your inbox, highlight a message that is an example of > one on which you want to perform an action — en email message from > "Sourdough", for example. 
> With the message highlighted, go to your menu bar and choose > Message/Create Rule From Message. You can select messages by a variety > of variables and perform a variety of actions on them. Use this > technique to send all messages from family members to a certain folder, > or all messages containing attachments to another folder. > You can also "killfile" certain senders in the same way. Simply choose > Message/Block Sender or set a rule to delete all messages from a > particular sender. > "ISIS" <I…@pyramid.com> wrote in message > news:VYzA4.10811$T54.254582@news3.mia… > > Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives > you the > > privilege of being included in every forward that family members come > > across? I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for > me. > > I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to > include me > > either. How do these things make you guys feel? > > ISIS > > http://www.geocities.com/of_isis/ISIS.html?952372005610
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what gets me is having to open the attachments up to 6-10 times before the content actually comes up, depending on where you fall in the list. ISIS "floridanewbie" <floridanew…@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:38d3cdb7.221563137@news.mindspring.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:18:47 -0800, "ISIS" <I…@pyramid.com> wrote: > >Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives you the > >privilege of being included in every forward that family members come > >across? I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for me. > >I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to include me > >either. How do these things make you guys feel? > Keep your delete key well oiled > I have over a dozen family members and a great many friends who send > things my way. I think it is wonderful to be reading something that > causes me to break out in laughter or touches my heart. > Still, it is unfortunate that some people cannot take time to clear up > the quoting before hitting their forward button … things with > multiple levels of quoting done wrong are too much trouble to > decipher. People would be better advised to use their copy and paste > functions instead of forwarding … unless they have the redirect > option (Eudora) that does not put quote characters in the message. > Before I pass on jokes or other interesting material, I strip all > quote characters and then unwrap the lines so that every mail client > will display the message clearly. Perhaps 10% of what comes my way > is worth passing on… it is like joke central here > What I do not like is getting on people’s joke lists but never having > any personal communication … the jokes are fine but they do not take > the place of keeping in touch once in a while with personal notes. > I also am very cautious with attachments … I follow a virus > newsgroup to see what evil new things are roaming loose in the wild > and use up-to-date virus checking but no virus checker will catch all > the Trojans lurking around, often with the same names as safe > executables. Yep, optical.exe (from someone here) is cute and safe > but there now is a worm with the same name …. that is like the frog > in the blender – I got a safe version (yeah, it is a little sick) but > then someone added a virus to the same executable … this kind of > thing just confuses the issue even more. > If you have limited space in your ISP’s incoming mailbox or if you > have a slow 14.4kbps modem or cannot hold long connections, you might > ask friends not to send .avi or other huge files. When my sister got > her scanner, she did not realize just how huge those .bmp files were; > now she knows how to compress them into .jpgs > Floridanewbie
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ISIS wrote: > what gets me is having to open the attachments up to 6-10 times before the > content actually comes up, depending on where you fall in the list.
I know what you mean…and then you find the gem doesn’t shine at all! On your original post: I like getting funny/interesting snippets but if I’m one of 20 recipients I don’t feel it’s very personal and suspect the attachment hasn’t even been read. I rarely carbon copy more than one other person when I send stuff or pass it along and I often take the time to tidy the format up first. (sometimes I wonder if I have tendencies toward OCD. ) It’s a bit different for interest groups, of course, where the information ‘bulk-sent’ is more like a newsletter. Callai – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> ISIS > "floridanewbie" <floridanew…@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:38d3cdb7.221563137@news.mindspring.com… > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:18:47 -0800, "ISIS" <I…@pyramid.com> wrote: > > >Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives you > the > > >privilege of being included in every forward that family members come > > >across? I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for > me. > > >I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to include > me > > >either. How do these things make you guys feel? > > Keep your delete key well oiled > > I have over a dozen family members and a great many friends who send > > things my way. I think it is wonderful to be reading something that > > causes me to break out in laughter or touches my heart. > > Still, it is unfortunate that some people cannot take time to clear up > > the quoting before hitting their forward button … things with > > multiple levels of quoting done wrong are too much trouble to > > decipher. People would be better advised to use their copy and paste > > functions instead of forwarding … unless they have the redirect > > option (Eudora) that does not put quote characters in the message. > > Before I pass on jokes or other interesting material, I strip all > > quote characters and then unwrap the lines so that every mail client > > will display the message clearly. Perhaps 10% of what comes my way > > is worth passing on… it is like joke central here > > What I do not like is getting on people’s joke lists but never having > > any personal communication … the jokes are fine but they do not take > > the place of keeping in touch once in a while with personal notes. > > I also am very cautious with attachments … I follow a virus > > newsgroup to see what evil new things are roaming loose in the wild > > and use up-to-date virus checking but no virus checker will catch all > > the Trojans lurking around, often with the same names as safe > > executables. Yep, optical.exe (from someone here) is cute and safe > > but there now is a worm with the same name …. that is like the frog > > in the blender – I got a safe version (yeah, it is a little sick) but > > then someone added a virus to the same executable … this kind of > > thing just confuses the issue even more. > > If you have limited space in your ISP’s incoming mailbox or if you > > have a slow 14.4kbps modem or cannot hold long connections, you might > > ask friends not to send .avi or other huge files. When my sister got > > her scanner, she did not realize just how huge those .bmp files were; > > now she knows how to compress them into .jpgs > > Floridanewbie
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->From: Callai cal…@yahoo.com >I know what you mean…and then you find the gem doesn’t shine at all! >On your original post: I like getting funny/interesting snippets but if I’m >one >of 20 recipients I don’t feel it’s very personal and suspect the attachment >hasn’t even been read. I rarely carbon copy more than one other person when I >send stuff or pass it along and I often take the time to tidy the format up >first. (sometimes I wonder if I have tendencies toward OCD. ) >It’s a bit different for interest groups, of course, where the information >’bulk-sent’ is more like a newsletter. >Callai
So actually the bottom line is this: if you like getting the emails…do nothing. If you don’t like getting them, tell the sender(s) and alleviate the problem. Of use the delete button. After reading your response it became crystal clear that we all make meaning of our life experiences. We all have boundaries, breaking points and levels of toleration. You for instance don’t like being a big clist, you like the occassional joke or snippet. Unfortunately, not everything that people send will be humorous to you or even interesting to you. I hate some of the stuff I get…some of it is in really poor taste. I just say EWWWW and delete. What I keep remembering is that 3 years ago I didn’t have a computer and was not in touch with 3/4 of the people who I now have contact with. As superficial as some of that contact is, it is still nice at times. I also assume that some of the stuff that I think is funny, helpful, inspirational, etc to me, is probably annoying to others. As I said earlier…I’d rather get an annoying email that can be deleted, than answer the phone and have that annoying person at the other end. MIL? I just looooove my computer for reasons for like that
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 02:38:12 GMT, Callai <cal…@yahoo.com> wrote: >ISIS wrote: >> what gets me is having to open the attachments up to 6-10 times before the >> content actually comes up, depending on where you fall in the list. >I know what you mean…and then you find the gem doesn’t shine at all! >On your original post: I like getting funny/interesting snippets but if I’m one >of 20 recipients I don’t feel it’s very personal and suspect the attachment >hasn’t even been read. I rarely carbon copy more than one other person when I >send stuff or pass it along and I often take the time to tidy the format up >first. (sometimes I wonder if I have tendencies toward OCD. )
<snip> When I send to mixed groups (family and friends) I never use Cc: … use Bcc: instead so no one knows who else got the thing … this keeps private e-mail addresses private I had never realized my compulsion to clean up interesting material before sending it on might be a form of OCD … I just know how much I dislike getting stuff in an unreadable form. Oh well … Floridanewbie — Warning: Objects in mirror may appear smarter than they are.
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I agree. I frequently forward funny things to others, but I think that if it’s funny enough to forward, then it’s worth the effort to clean up all the > characters, etc. I set up a macro in Word that takes care of most of the common problems. I paste the joke into a Word document, run the "Clean" macro, then forward the cleaned up version. — Sourdough Sez: Eskimos have 52 words for "snow" because it is important to them. We ought to have at least as many words for "love". "floridanewbie" <floridanew…@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:38d3cdb7.221563137@news.mindspring.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:18:47 -0800, "ISIS" <I…@pyramid.com> wrote: > >Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives you the > >privilege of being included in every forward that family members come > >across? I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for me. > >I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to include me > >either. How do these things make you guys feel? > Keep your delete key well oiled > I have over a dozen family members and a great many friends who send > things my way. I think it is wonderful to be reading something that > causes me to break out in laughter or touches my heart. > Still, it is unfortunate that some people cannot take time to clear up > the quoting before hitting their forward button … things with > multiple levels of quoting done wrong are too much trouble to > decipher. People would be better advised to use their copy and paste > functions instead of forwarding … unless they have the redirect > option (Eudora) that does not put quote characters in the message. > Before I pass on jokes or other interesting material, I strip all > quote characters and then unwrap the lines so that every mail client > will display the message clearly. Perhaps 10% of what comes my way > is worth passing on… it is like joke central here > What I do not like is getting on people’s joke lists but never having > any personal communication … the jokes are fine but they do not take > the place of keeping in touch once in a while with personal notes. > I also am very cautious with attachments … I follow a virus > newsgroup to see what evil new things are roaming loose in the wild > and use up-to-date virus checking but no virus checker will catch all > the Trojans lurking around, often with the same names as safe > executables. Yep, optical.exe (from someone here) is cute and safe > but there now is a worm with the same name …. that is like the frog > in the blender – I got a safe version (yeah, it is a little sick) but > then someone added a virus to the same executable … this kind of > thing just confuses the issue even more. > If you have limited space in your ISP’s incoming mailbox or if you > have a slow 14.4kbps modem or cannot hold long connections, you might > ask friends not to send .avi or other huge files. When my sister got > her scanner, she did not realize just how huge those .bmp files were; > now she knows how to compress them into .jpgs > Floridanewbie
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -floridanewbie wrote: > On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 02:38:12 GMT, Callai <cal…@yahoo.com> wrote: > >ISIS wrote: > >> what gets me is having to open the attachments up to 6-10 times before the > >> content actually comes up, depending on where you fall in the list. > >I know what you mean…and then you find the gem doesn’t shine at all! > >On your original post: I like getting funny/interesting snippets but if I’m one > >of 20 recipients I don’t feel it’s very personal and suspect the attachment > >hasn’t even been read. I rarely carbon copy more than one other person when I > >send stuff or pass it along and I often take the time to tidy the format up > >first. (sometimes I wonder if I have tendencies toward OCD. ) > <snip> > When I send to mixed groups (family and friends) I never use Cc: … > use Bcc: instead so no one knows who else got the thing … this keeps > private e-mail addresses private
I’ve used that too, but don’t have the need very often. Another useful tip… > I had never realized my compulsion to clean up interesting material > before sending it on might be a form of OCD … I just know how much I > dislike getting stuff in an unreadable form. Oh well …
Hey, I was kidding… ) I sometimes think I make too much work for myself, by being ‘too tidy’, that was all! You strike me as being thorough, careful and considerate, not beset by OCD. <chortle> – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Floridanewbie > — > Warning: Objects in mirror may appear smarter than they are.
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Sourdough wrote: > I agree. I frequently forward funny things to others, but I think that > if it’s funny enough to forward, then it’s worth the effort to clean up > all the > characters, etc. I set up a macro in Word that takes care of > most of the common problems. I paste the joke into a Word document, run > the "Clean" macro, then forward the cleaned up version.
I’d LOVE this. If it’s not too big would you consider sending it to me? Pretty please? If so, I’ll send you my ISP addy. Callai – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> — > Sourdough Sez: > Eskimos have 52 words for "snow" because it is important to them. > We ought to have at least as many words for "love". > "floridanewbie" <floridanew…@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:38d3cdb7.221563137@news.mindspring.com… > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:18:47 -0800, "ISIS" <I…@pyramid.com> wrote: > > >Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives > you the > > >privilege of being included in every forward that family members come > > >across? I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve > for me. > > >I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to > include me > > >either. How do these things make you guys feel? > > Keep your delete key well oiled > > I have over a dozen family members and a great many friends who send > > things my way. I think it is wonderful to be reading something that > > causes me to break out in laughter or touches my heart. > > Still, it is unfortunate that some people cannot take time to clear up > > the quoting before hitting their forward button … things with > > multiple levels of quoting done wrong are too much trouble to > > decipher. People would be better advised to use their copy and paste > > functions instead of forwarding … unless they have the redirect > > option (Eudora) that does not put quote characters in the message. > > Before I pass on jokes or other interesting material, I strip all > > quote characters and then unwrap the lines so that every mail client > > will display the message clearly. Perhaps 10% of what comes my way > > is worth passing on… it is like joke central here > > What I do not like is getting on people’s joke lists but never having > > any personal communication … the jokes are fine but they do not take > > the place of keeping in touch once in a while with personal notes. > > I also am very cautious with attachments … I follow a virus > > newsgroup to see what evil new things are roaming loose in the wild > > and use up-to-date virus checking but no virus checker will catch all > > the Trojans lurking around, often with the same names as safe > > executables. Yep, optical.exe (from someone here) is cute and safe > > but there now is a worm with the same name …. that is like the frog > > in the blender – I got a safe version (yeah, it is a little sick) but > > then someone added a virus to the same executable … this kind of > > thing just confuses the issue even more. > > If you have limited space in your ISP’s incoming mailbox or if you > > have a slow 14.4kbps modem or cannot hold long connections, you might > > ask friends not to send .avi or other huge files. When my sister got > > her scanner, she did not realize just how huge those .bmp files were; > > now she knows how to compress them into .jpgs > > Floridanewbie
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> As I said earlier…I’d rather get an annoying email that can be deleted, than > answer the phone and have that annoying person at the other end. MIL? I just > looooove my computer for reasons for like that
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"Callai" wrote:
| I’d LOVE this. If it’s not too big would you consider sending it to me? | Pretty please? Hi, Callai. This macro works pretty well most of the time. You may still have an extra paragraph or two that you need to clean up, but the macro does the most commonly needed work. Enjoy! Sub CleanMail() ‘ ‘ CleanMail Macro ‘ Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find .Text = "^p" .Replacement.Text = "^l" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = ">" .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = " " .Replacement.Text = " " .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = " " .Replacement.Text = " " .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = "^l " .Replacement.Text = "^l" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = "^l^l" .Replacement.Text = "^p" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = "^l" .Replacement.Text = " " .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll End Sub
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Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives you the privilege of being included in every forward that family members come across? I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for me. I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to include me either. How do these things make you guys feel? ISIS http://www.geocities.com/of_isis/ISIS.html?952372005610
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when you put it like that, it puts a whole new light on it! Thanks! ISIS "Oceanmomma" <oceanmo…@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20000317194811.02480.00002684@ng-ca1.aol.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >From: "ISIS" I…@pyramid.com > >Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives you the > >privilege of being included in every forward that family members come > >across? > I am and I don’t think of it as suffering. I look at it as being included in > something that others find funny, educational or whatever *they* think it is. > I send people things that I think that *they* might like or that I think is > particularly witty, sentimental, or whatever. I know that people mean well > when they do this. > >I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for me. > >I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to include me > >either. How do these things make you guys feel? > It is certainly your right not to like it and your choices include continuing > to not like it and either read or delete…or confronting the people who send > the stuff. > I actually feel blessed to have some family and friends who I know are thinking > of me even if the stuff is corny as hell. I do delete the bulk of it…it’s > the thought that counts (to me) . Every once in a while, even my mother in > law sends something worth reading and I’d rather read a cornball thing from her > than a phone call any old day > That’s my take on it.
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I have a cousin that used to do that. I sent her an email saying I didn’t have time to read all that she sent and asked if she would mind taking me off her list. As far as I know, she wasn’t offended. (I wouldn’t really know, cuz we were never that close.) I get so much junk now, I delete most of it. Many of those messages come to me as attachments and with all the viruses going around (especially the ones people don’t know they are forwarding) I just don’t open attachments unless I requested them. — LN ISIS <I…@pyramid.com> wrote in message
news:VYzA4.10811$T54.254582@news3.mia… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives you the > privilege of being included in every forward that family members come > across? I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for me. > I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to include me > either. How do these things make you guys feel? > ISIS > http://www.geocities.com/of_isis/ISIS.html?952372005610
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ISIS wrote:
: Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives you the : privilege of being included in every forward that family members come : across? Oh my gosh yes! My brother-in-law drives me crazy with his 20-times forwarded posts, which more often than not are urban legends. I am been sooo tempted to write a "please remove me from your spam list" letter, but I don’t want to hurt his feelings. : I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for me. I can tell you why it is for me; it’s a waste of time, bandwidth, and just lowers my opinion of him because if he ever took the time to think about what he is forwarding on, he’d realize it’s bunk. Of course, with my mom putting a WebTV unit on layway, I shudder to think what email delights I’ll be showered with in a few months ;-p : I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to include me : either. How do these things make you guys feel? I guess I answered that above One thing I started doing is sending him the URL from http://www.snopes.com where the legend of the week that he’s sending is debunked. So far, he hasn’t apologized (last week it was the "Gas Out" email that’s making the rounds), but maybe it will help him think next time. EmmaWoo, whose son is finally asleep, and man has it been a LONG day!
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Ooh…thank you, SD! I can’t wait to try it out. 
) Much gratitude, Callai (I feel like I’ve been given a present. lol ) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Sourdough wrote: > "Callai" wrote: > | I’d LOVE this. If it’s not too big would you consider sending it to > me? > | Pretty please? > Hi, Callai. > This macro works pretty well most of the time. You may still have an > extra paragraph or two that you need to clean up, but the macro does the > most commonly needed work. > Enjoy! > Sub CleanMail() > ‘ > ‘ CleanMail Macro > ‘ > Selection.Find.ClearFormatting > Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting > With Selection.Find > .Text = "^p" > .Replacement.Text = "^l" > .Forward = True > .Wrap = wdFindContinue > .Format = False > .MatchCase = False > .MatchWholeWord = False > .MatchWildcards = False > .MatchSoundsLike = False > .MatchAllWordForms = False > End With > Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll > With Selection.Find > .Text = ">" > .Replacement.Text = "" > .Forward = True > .Wrap = wdFindContinue > .Format = False > .MatchCase = False > .MatchWholeWord = False > .MatchWildcards = False > .MatchSoundsLike = False > .MatchAllWordForms = False > End With > Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll > With Selection.Find > .Text = " " > .Replacement.Text = " " > .Forward = True > .Wrap = wdFindContinue > .Format = False > .MatchCase = False > .MatchWholeWord = False > .MatchWildcards = False > .MatchSoundsLike = False > .MatchAllWordForms = False > End With > Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll > With Selection.Find > .Text = " " > .Replacement.Text = " " > .Forward = True > .Wrap = wdFindContinue > .Format = False > .MatchCase = False > .MatchWholeWord = False > .MatchWildcards = False > .MatchSoundsLike = False > .MatchAllWordForms = False > End With > Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll > With Selection.Find > .Text = "^l " > .Replacement.Text = "^l" > .Forward = True > .Wrap = wdFindContinue > .Format = False > .MatchCase = False > .MatchWholeWord = False > .MatchWildcards = False > .MatchSoundsLike = False > .MatchAllWordForms = False > End With > Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll > With Selection.Find > .Text = "^l^l" > .Replacement.Text = "^p" > .Forward = True > .Wrap = wdFindContinue > .Format = False > .MatchCase = False > .MatchWholeWord = False > .MatchWildcards = False > .MatchSoundsLike = False > .MatchAllWordForms = False > End With > Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll > With Selection.Find > .Text = "^l" > .Replacement.Text = " " > .Forward = True > .Wrap = wdFindContinue > .Format = False > .MatchCase = False > .MatchWholeWord = False > .MatchWildcards = False > .MatchSoundsLike = False > .MatchAllWordForms = False > End With > Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll > End Sub
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>From: "ISIS" I…@pyramid.com >when you put it like that, it puts a whole new light on it! Thanks!
Aren’t newsgroups great?
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I agree with Ocean…..At least you know you were thought about that day. I kow sometimes it can annoying to delete all that stuff ( and I get it from my family and inlaws and all the other relatives) but sometimes it is something that i nkow will cheer up someone I know and often there is something to help me. If it doesn’t strike me in the first few lines I just hit delete. Kim W
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I notice that you are using Outlook Express. Have you considered setting up "rules" to send messages from certain people, or containing certain words, to separate folders? I do this with several listbot newsletters that I receive. Rather than having them cluttering up my inbox, I have them automatically stored in a separate folder that I review when I have spare time. To do this, go to your inbox, highlight a message that is an example of one on which you want to perform an action — en email message from "Sourdough", for example. With the message highlighted, go to your menu bar and choose Message/Create Rule From Message. You can select messages by a variety of variables and perform a variety of actions on them. Use this technique to send all messages from family members to a certain folder, or all messages containing attachments to another folder. You can also "killfile" certain senders in the same way. Simply choose Message/Block Sender or set a rule to delete all messages from a particular sender. "ISIS" <I…@pyramid.com> wrote in message
news:VYzA4.10811$T54.254582@news3.mia… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives you the > privilege of being included in every forward that family members come > across? I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for me. > I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to include me > either. How do these things make you guys feel? > ISIS > http://www.geocities.com/of_isis/ISIS.html?952372005610
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>From: "ISIS" I…@pyramid.com >Do any of you suffer being on the family e-mail "list", which gives you the >privilege of being included in every forward that family members come >across?
I am and I don’t think of it as suffering. I look at it as being included in something that others find funny, educational or whatever *they* think it is. I send people things that I think that *they* might like or that I think is particularly witty, sentimental, or whatever. I know that people mean well when they do this. >I don’t know why exactly; but this is sort of a pet peeve for me. >I never reply…but I haven’t addressed them and told them not to include me >either. How do these things make you guys feel?
It is certainly your right not to like it and your choices include continuing to not like it and either read or delete…or confronting the people who send the stuff. I actually feel blessed to have some family and friends who I know are thinking of me even if the stuff is corny as hell. I do delete the bulk of it…it’s the thought that counts (to me) . Every once in a while, even my mother in law sends something worth reading and I’d rather read a cornball thing from her than a phone call any old day That’s my take on it.
