Re: Innate Perverseness of E-mail Pages

["Ivan E. Rouse" <irouse@LASIERRA.EDU>]

At 16:42 8/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
> 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.

I too have noticed this but it is usually with web pages.  I found a
delightful and very useful printing utility that I would highly recommend
for printing email and web pages.  It does two very important things:
        (1) It allows you to preview the output before you print and allows you to
delete selected pages before printing.
        (2) It also makes it possible for you to print several pages on a single
page by compressing them.  I usually print two pages per page and they are
quite readable but you can print 4 or 8 pages to a page.  Even at two pages
per page it can save a lot of paper!

This utility is called FinePrint and it is available from www.fineprint.com
in either a trial version that prints up to about 8 pages or for about $30
you can get the trial version registered.  I know I have saved enough paper
to pay for it already.

Ivan Rouse, Professor and Chair
Physics Department, La Sierra University
4700 Pierce St., Riverside, CA 92515
email: irouse@lasierra.edu
web: http://physics.lasierra.edu/irouse/
phone: 909-785-2137, FAX 909-785-2215