[or-roots] too much off topic

[Leslie Chapman]

while some of us are fond of all the bells and whistles and some of us have
ancient puters which don't even know how, this is all OFF TOPIC and ya'll
are never going to agree, this is like the people feeling they are being
flamed cause they get 20 or 30 emails from a bunch of :dead relative"
chasers and don't know how to group delete or set their spam blockers.


give a little live a little folks, I get all sorts of weird stuff, sometimes
things come in from people in such small print I can't even see the
individual letters, select the whole bleeping thing and past it to a word
processor and select it again and blow it up,

for example MSWord will usually take any text, html or whatever and make it
legible, if it isn't select the whole thing and go to Format/font and pick a
bigger number in the size column.
For those who are using MsWorks or a similar poor man's word processor, you
may have to learn how to "paste special" under the edit pull down menu or
whatever the equivalent is.

generaly I prefer plain text for "dead relative" docs, but lately been
saving beau coup web pages from ancestry.com cuz if there is somebody there
I want more info on it just go online and click on the sucker's name and
viola, I'm on their family page for what that's worth.

My point I guess is if we're smart enough to be able to turn the puter on,
no small feat I might add, we oughta be able to deal with differing
platforms, and different ideas about what folks want to use to present
themselves.

My biggest gripe on those lines is when I try to send someone a file, rather
than paste 50 pages into an email, and they get gibberish and stuff they
send me is gibberish and I ask them what platform they are using, Win 3.x
95, 98, apple, mac or whatever and they can't tell me.

I feel sorta like I am sure the gal at the computer lab did early in my PC
learning curve when I put my programming class disk in the B drive and tried
to run it from the "C" prompt and she figured out my problem and opened it
up to find out I was studying "C" programming and she turned to me and said
"You're studying "C" programming and you don't even know how to turn the
computer on???"

Les C