ENOUGH ALREADY

please, Please, PLEASE, turn off HTML! Most folks here don't use Windows, though I do. If you care whether people read your contributions, you'll TURN OFF RTF/HTML. Most of the list users can't interpret it and many simply discard HTML messages. If one translates it to plain text, the formatting, which you may perceive as really COOL, is lost, as is the implicit structure. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: David Woyciesjes To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' Cc: 'west(a)tseinc.com' Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:41 PM Subject: RE: ENOUGH ALREADY -----Original Message----- From: Jay West [mailto:west@tseinc.com] I sincerely agree as to the tragedy of recent US events. My heart goes out to all affected. HOWEVER, this is a classic computer mailing list. The discussion on the WTC stuff is very interesting, but it belongs on all the myraid of other lists present on the net for this purpose. What on EARTH posessed people to think we needed blow by blow updates on this list about current world events? Think - if you have to put "OT" in the subject of your message, it probably doesn't belong here. Regards, Jay West Jay --- Thank you for your sympathy... What possesed us to post updates here? Since I was the first to mention it (IIRC, I might be wrong), I'll answer... Simple. Many people here were stuck at work, without any source of news, to find out what was happening. Major news websites were useless, since they were all swamped yesterday. I know of a couple people, who didn't know a thing about it, until I sent a message. They were then able to take care of necessary business in due time. If I upset someone by posting an OT message to one of my mailing lists, and helping someone in the process, I say too bad. Suck it up. There are a few times when an OT post is accepted. Yesterday was one of them. But, yes, now is the time to kill this thread from the list, now that everything has calmed down some... It's time to help your neighbors. Call your local Red Cross, and make an app't to donate blood. --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818