Re: [Phys-l] Rude?

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

The "overriding" I think is a bug inherent in the Netscape mail app., or 
is it a feature from my not knowing how to set up its preferences?   The 
"cliché warning" is my failed attempt at humour, evidently.

bc is planing to switch mail apps. as Netscape is no longer supporting 
it.  He'll also switch to Safari for the same reason.  He invites 
suggestions for his mail app.  At the moment is considering OS X's "Mail".


p.s. periodically I've reloaded Netscape from "the" CD because it 
periodically becomes unstable, e.g. shuts down (quits), inter alia.  I 
have concluded there is a bug which eventually causes this and other 
"weird" behaviour.   BTW, I don't get <<, but (a) blue vertical line(s) 
to indicate quotes, which I'm loath to lose, and am not looking forward 
to (another cliché)

Brian Whatcott wrote:

> At 04:39 PM 1/21/2008, bc, you wrote:
> [BB]
>  
>
> > "Frankly, I have found the responses on this  issue to be pretty rude!
> > ...I was taken aback a bit."
> >    
> [bc]
>  
>
> > This has come up before WRT people who hesitate to post because
> > of their fear of being pilloried. ...
> >    
> [BLM]
>  
>
> > Ain't rocket science Jack - just search ...."
> >    
>
> For some reason, I remember some undergraduate efforts with a 
> tachistoscope. This is an instrument for presenting briefly, a 
> selected image to either or both eyes. An 'ordinary' image needed a 
> rather brief exposure in order to achieve conscious recognition.  An 
> emotionally charged image, by contrast, sometimes needed a much 
> longer presentation time in order to be recognized.   This 
> differential has a name - something like "perceptual barrier".
>
> It appears to be the case that we all have more difficulty in finding items
>  which are in some sense "unwelcome".
> [By the way, I have noticed several of the bc contributions of late, 
> have shown the effects of reformatting to  book style compositing: 
> i.e wall to wall text, overriding quotation indicators like >>> and 
> adding curious effects like this snippet -
> (cliché warning)
>       - which to my reader presents as fifteen characters within 
> parentheses. ]
>
>
> Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka! 
>
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