Re: Innate Perverseness of E-mail Pages

[Rick Tarara <rbtarara@SPRYNET.COM>]

Just another corollary to Murphy's Laws.  Same as the fact that long
downloads never 'crap out' until they are about 80% complete and color
printers never lose communication or go dry on one color until 75% through a
high resolution printing job, or your computer never hangs (yes, I know
those Macs _never_ hang--LOL) until you have been working over an hour on
something without ever saving it (even though you normally save your work
every 10 minute.)  ;-)

Rick

----- Original Message -----
From: paul o johnson <pojhome@FLASH.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 4:42 PM
Subject: Innate Perverseness of E-mail Pages


> Here's a "Why is it" that some of you may be able to answer.
>
> Why is it that 99.9% of one-page e-mail messages have only one or two
lines at
> the end that require a second page when printed? These orphans are never
message
> lines--just the tail end of bloated signatures or, worse, the last lines
of
> "humorous" quotes that everyone has read at least a dozen times.
>
> I never save e-mail messages to disk. When I read a message that I want to
> ponder at greater length, I print it.. But I found long ago that I have to
enter
> the "print only page 1" command so I won't waste a second page for one or
two
> lines that I really don't want to save.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this? If you can explain it, maybe we'll name the
effect
> after you. My Netscape page margins are set to 0.5 inches. I don't know if
that
> applies to printed pages or just to screen pages.
>
> poj
> Collin County College