[ale] Just another reason to purchase a mac

Tim Watts timtw at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 30 12:37:21 EDT 2009


Content-Type: text/obtuse :-)

What I notice is that your wrapping messages include an HTML part; the ones 
from you that do not are fine.

On Tuesday 30 June 2009 12:23:56 pm Jim Kinney wrote:
> OK. For unknown reasons my email posts have become unclear for reasons
> NOT due to my usual rambling form of prose that causes English majors
> to cringe at my extended ability to produce overly verbose, yet
> usually grammatically correct sentence structure while still conveying
> a sense of syntactic freedom not found outside of dimly lit, smoky bar
> where people snap their fingers instead of clap. Admittedly, I used to
> relish in the ability to write in this form as a test of my English
> teachers patience and the ability of the grammar checking software to
> inform me I should be writing insurance policies for the Federal
> Government.
>
> Clearly, I am testing both my abilities to wring hideously long prose
> while simultaneously boring ALE readers and testing this unusual line
> wrapping problem that appeared in a Firefox email session on Gmail
> this morning.
>
> It appears visually correct before I hit the "send" button.
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com> 
wrote:
> > Jim Kinney wrote:
> >> I dunno 'bout you but I want my laptop to stay where I put it. Wonder
> >> how much a kensington lock for that one will cost.... very well done!
> >
> > yeah, I liked it.  By the way, your posts are coming (to me, at least)
> > one continuously wrapped line.  Are you using a new email client?
> >
> > --
> > Until later, Geoffrey
> >
> > Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
> > temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
> >  - Benjamin Franklin
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