Re: [epub] Newsletter size, was Mass unsubbing

["Online secrets,marketingdreams" <marketingdreamz@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Online secrets,marketingdreams" <marketingdreamz@yahoo.com>

Hay Cathy

haha very refreshing and sadly true.

But, does'nt your word processor offer you
the choice to disable grammar and spelling
check?

I use word 97, and I can shut this function
off as I please, I don't know about 2000.

Osama Taha
Internet Marketing Dreams
The home of Business Dream Locator
http://www.marketingdreams.net


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--- Cathy Stucker <cstucker@flash.net> wrote:
> >From: "Ray Whiting" <rwhiting@bellsouth.net>
> >
> >Another thing I've notice about file size.    I
> send out TwoScoops in
> >plaintext, no formatting, no HTML, no rich text. 
> Today's edition, for
> >example the original file, created in TextPad, was
> 10K.   I mailed it out
> >through Onelist, and it came back to both of my
> email accounts like it
> >always done (I have several email accounts, and I
> check each with a
> >different email program so I can keep track of
> things like this).
> >
> >In Outlook Express, the file size showed 12K
> >In Outlook2000, however, it shows up at 23K !!!
> >
> >Does anyone have a clue WHY this is happening? 
> What is it about Outlook2000
> >that bloats a file so much?
> 
> Could it be because it is the newest version of a
> Microsoft product?  I
> can't help but notice that MS programs keep getting
> bigger, bulkier and
> sloppier.  Also, in an effort to make computers
> "idiot proof" they do all
> kinds of things for us automatically--even if we
> don't want them to.  It
> seems that programs now are made for two kinds of
> people--those who don't
> know a thing about computers, and those who know
> everything about
> computers.  Those of us in the middle spend a lot of
> time fighting with the
> darn things, trying to make them do what we want
> them to do, and stop doing
> what we don't want them to do!
> 
> No, I don't want my word processor to correct my
> grammar and spelling as I
> type, and dammit, I MEANT to put that word in upper
> case.  Please, dear
> God, make it stop!
> 
> Cathy Stucker
> (bitching, but with her tongue in her cheek)
> 
> 
> 

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