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BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?

24 Jan 02 - 08:28 AM (#634503)
Subject: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Mary in Kentucky

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?


24 Jan 02 - 09:10 AM (#634536)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Mary in Kentucky

*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.


24 Jan 02 - 09:14 AM (#634542)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

LOL, How many test PMs did you get?


24 Jan 02 - 09:21 AM (#634548)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Mary in Kentucky

ENOUGH!


24 Jan 02 - 09:21 AM (#634549)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Mary in Kentucky

ENOUGH!


24 Jan 02 - 09:34 AM (#634553)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Murray MacLeod


24 Jan 02 - 09:38 AM (#634556)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

Speak up Murray!


24 Jan 02 - 09:43 AM (#634562)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Jon Freeman

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


24 Jan 02 - 10:25 AM (#634590)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Amos

See, Jon? Steve Jobs was RIGHT!!

A


24 Jan 02 - 12:07 PM (#634664)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Jon Freeman

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

Jon


24 Jan 02 - 12:40 PM (#634700)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: catspaw49

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


24 Jan 02 - 01:00 PM (#634716)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Mary in Kentucky

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


24 Jan 02 - 07:01 PM (#634966)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Amos

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


24 Jan 02 - 07:22 PM (#634983)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Jon Freeman

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


24 Jan 02 - 07:31 PM (#634991)
Subject: RE: BS: Blank PM's - anyone else?
From: Amos

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