BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?

Subject: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 08:28 AM

I had three PM's this morning, and two were blank (message line OK). Some of my email is not getting through either. Any ideas? Anybody else have this problem?

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 09:10 AM

*RED FACE HERE* I clicked on the name instead of message for two of them! (Y'all can stop sending test PM's now! *BG*) I knew I shouldn't have given up coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 09:14 AM

LOL, How many test PMs did you get?

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 09:21 AM

ENOUGH!

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 09:21 AM

ENOUGH!

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 09:34 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 09:38 AM

Speak up Murray!

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 09:43 AM

It's probably that you'd been using my PM system before Mary and simply clicked on the leftmost column (which is the subject on mine) without thinking - easily done.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 10:25 AM

See, Jon? Steve Jobs was RIGHT!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 12:07 PM

Amos, I take it you are reffering to a quote from him - can you point me to it?

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 12:40 PM

Mary, I truthfully wouldn't worry about it at all. I get lots of PM's and send lots of PM's and for the most part they are basically blank. I mean there are words and all, but they're still blank........especially the ones I send.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 01:00 PM

...shootin' blanks again, Spaw? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 07:01 PM

LOL, Spaw.

Jon,. I was referring to his early idea that intertface design should be standardized for all Mac apps. It was resented by a lot of independent developers at one time, but today even Microsoft tries to use a common interface design across apps as much as possible.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 07:22 PM

Thanks Amos,

I do agree with his thinking - and as you rightly say, Microsoft did try to follow it.

Did you ever use Wordperfect for DOS? Perhaps other versions were as bad but I never used them. By the time I had got to use it (5?), F1 was a pretty standard help key for applications but they used F11 - or was it Escape? - I really can't remember except to say that nothing was "standard".

I seem to remember many people liking the package (I think it was #1 WP program over here) and what it could do but I hated it because of its interface - I used a range of software and didn't want to remember "help on this is this key, help on that is xxx....", I just wanted to be able to learn enough to survive and do what I needed to and not to bother with what to me where needless differences (I guess if I was a secretary purely Word processing I would have thought differently).

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 07:31 PM

Yeah -- a great Wp program; by Ver 5 it had a completly useable macro language built in that has never been equaled for ease of use!! Sigh.

A