MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2191 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Braid by "Mark Severson" 2) [ML] Request/suggestion by "Mark Severson" 3) [ml] filters by ShadowDreamer 4) Re: [ml] filters by "Mark Severson" 5) Re: MERCEDES-LACKEY digest 2189 by Laura Rossier 6) Short braid Re: [ML] Request/suggestion and quartet by Niki 7) Re: [ML] Request/suggestion by "David H. Tiffany" 8) Hello? by "Sharry Adams" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:56:14 -0800 From: "Mark Severson" To: Subject: Re: Braid Message-ID: <000801bf612d$4c37a140$2ecbe4d8-+AT+-oemcomputer> From: "Yvonne" > Heya all, > > *Yvonne hooks up her Enchanted Bucket (tm) to the sprinkler > system and turns it on, spraying everyone, newbies, lurkers, and oldbies, > with a-* ~~~SPLOOSH~~~ *of sea-water.* > Hey! Be careful with that water. Us curmudgeons hiding/working in the library don't want the books getting wet. Good thing the tarps were on the shelves while the painters were here. Fixing the place up a touch before the insanity that is tax season arrives. I on the other hand am going to hit the showers, I left sea-water behind when my enlistment was up in the Navy. ON THE BLACK SWAN Haven't read it yet so I can't really comment. > > ON IFTEL > > Someone brought up Iftel, and again, my bad delete finger made me > forget who. (strawberry sheeps in appology!) Personally, I want Iftel to > remain isolated. I *would* like to see a book about Iftel, but I don't > want them to go and become all buddy-buddy with Valdemar, etc. It's their > uniqueness and mystery that I enjoy and I believe that if they open their > borders to the rest of the world, they'll loose a whole bunch of that > appeal. That sounds good to me. I too would like to know about Iftel, its people and thier god/gods. They have/had a much better protection system the Valdemar ever had. I am VERY curious as to how the nation was founded. Time to scat, back to work. Take care all. Mark the tax zombie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 13:14:25 -0800 From: "Mark Severson" To: Subject: [ML] Request/suggestion Message-ID: <005201bf612f$d66d2ea0$2ecbe4d8-+AT+-oemcomputer> I have a request/suggestion for you folks. In the interest of sanity (especially in the interest of sanity) and also to make it easier for those of us who are on more then one mailing list please here me out. I suggest the use of [ML] or [ml] for those of you who hate the caps key on the Subject line of any posts to this list. This will allow the filter programs to more easily filter messages to this list to the folders that people have set up for Misty list messages. I've got filters going already, unfortunatly it does not catch all the messages (not even half!) and if anyone knows of a better way to do it I'm all ears! I'm even willing to BUY a email program (see, I'm desperate) instead of continuing to use Outlook Express. Please give it a try, or send me info whatever I'll appreciate it. Thank you! Mark Severson mark the tax zombie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:55:54 -0700 From: ShadowDreamer To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: [ml] filters Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000117145554.0070e2a4-+AT+-mail> I've never had any problems with filters. I use Eudora Pro, and have it filter messages which in the reply-to header it has mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk that seems to work well for me. I used filters with Eudora lite, as well. You can get that here: http://www.eudora.com/eudoralight/ I recommend trying before you buy... I don't like the latest verson of Eudora but I like the one I'm using, which is 3.0.3 At 09:46 PM 1/17/00 GMT, you wrote: >I have a request/suggestion for you folks. > >In the interest of sanity (especially in the interest of sanity) and also to >make it easier for those of us who are on more then one mailing list please >here me out. > >I suggest the use of [ML] or [ml] for those of you who hate the caps key on >the Subject line of any posts to this list. > >This will allow the filter programs to more easily filter messages to this >list to the folders that people have set up for Misty list messages. >I've got filters going already, unfortunatly it does not catch all the >messages (not even half!) and if anyone knows of a better way to do it I'm >all ears! I'm even willing to BUY a email program (see, I'm desperate) >instead of continuing to use Outlook Express. > >Please give it a try, or send me info whatever I'll appreciate it. > >Thank you! > >Mark Severson >mark the tax zombie > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:11:31 -0800 From: "Mark Severson" To: Subject: Re: [ml] filters Message-ID: <001301bf6148$942d4e80$6ecbe4d8-+AT+-oemcomputer> ----- Original Message ----- From: "ShadowDreamer" > I've never had any problems with filters. I use Eudora Pro, and have it > filter messages which in the reply-to header it has > mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk > that seems to work well for me. I used filters with Eudora lite, as well. > You can get that here: http://www.eudora.com/eudoralight/ > I recommend trying before you buy... I don't like the latest verson of > Eudora but I like the one I'm using, which is 3.0.3 Thanks, I will be investing in Eudora post haste. Things have been getting a little wacky of late, postings wise. Mark Severson mark the tax zombie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:58:55 -0500 From: Laura Rossier To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: MERCEDES-LACKEY digest 2189 Message-ID: <3883F30E.71EC6695-+AT+-ic.sunysb.edu> > From: Emily > best friend used to entertain herself in math by watching my eyes change > color...;) Aren't eyes that change color cool? Wouldn't it be neat if everyone had mood rings for eyes? I know that sounds painful but wouldn't it be interesting to interact with people who's emotions you could read from their eyes just like books always describe them. I know it's cheesy to say "her eyes were shining with happiness" or dark with sorrow or hard with anger (although how you see hard eyes is beyond me) but i just think it would kind of neat if it was really as easy as the books make it seem. > That would be really good. Especially since the Owls books center on > what's going on in Errold's Grove, and not the rest of Valdemar. Plus, It is a little odd that we've been focused on one kind of obscure northern village. Although developing the town people's idiosyncracies was fun I guess. somehow the other books didn't make me feel as if the world were quite as small as the Owl books did. I think this was from Yvonne: > away from Velgarth, SERRA and her other series work as I think it's gone > WAY down in quality, from about Winds on. I agree that I felt that the quality of her stories and characters wasn't quite drawing me as much as some of the earlier books did. I wish there was a way that the magic of her writing could be returned to Velgrath. I really enjoy this world and the way things work in it. I hope that there are more stories there for her to tell that she feels passion about enough to make me feel passionate about them. > Queen, but the entire Confederacy as well! *gag* I want to see a return > to the smaller-scale political plots rather than the VSV trend we've been I think i agree with this statement. I think I kind of felt that the Owl books were trying to do that but still keep some of the grandeur of an all out threat. It wasn't necessary. I think that I would have been fine with the relatively small threats that were actually there. All the mystery and suspense and impending doom kind of took me away from the characters themselves. I felt disappointed at the end b/c the real dilema just wasn't big enough to make up for the lack of emotional contact i had with the characters. So somehow find a way to combine emotional trauma with action in equal doses. > From: Miranda Warren > must be completed in 2 hours. (Aren't I a masochistic > little bunny. =) ) > Not on topic at all...but this triggered a memory of some MTV "cartoon" that had some cute little fuzzy bunnies being really psychotic and evil. I just can't remember. but do you think it's a sick sign that I really like the idea that cute and fuzzy animals aren't all sweet and innocent inside? got to stop emailing late at night when it's really really cold, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 03:25:12 -0800 From: Niki To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Short braid Re: [ML] Request/suggestion and quartet Message-ID: <38844D98.FFA6CE70-+AT+-mills.edu> Mark Severson wrote: > I have a request/suggestion for you folks. > In the interest of sanity (especially in the interest of sanity) and > also to make it easier for those of us who are on more then one > mailing list please here me out. > I suggest the use of [ML] or [ml] for those of you who hate the caps > key on the Subject line of any posts to this list. > This will allow the filter programs to more easily filter messages to this > list to the folders that people have set up for Misty list messages. > I've got filters going already, unfortunatly it does not catch all the > messages (not even half!) and if anyone knows of a better way to do it I'm all ears! oh, this would be wonderful, if there could be some standard for at least part of the RE: line. My filter doesn't catch /any/ of this list, I must be doing something wrong. Emily wrote: > In Niki's last post, there was something about some series being a > quartet. I haven't been able to keep up with the list in the past > couple of days, and I think I missed the post that it was originally > on...which series? Oh, dear. Did I say there was a quartet? I think of the Oathbreakers series as a duet (I don't count BTS); if I mentioned a quartet, I'm not sure what I was talking about. Sorry this was so short. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 06:56:08 -0800 (PST) From: "David H. Tiffany" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: [ML] Request/suggestion Message-ID: What, can't you set filters to catch the "Reply-to:" line or whatever? Proper filtering programs should be able to catch any line in the header or body, at least IMHO. David H Tiffany ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:35:02 PST From: "Sharry Adams" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Hello? Message-ID: <20000118193502.6531.qmail-+AT+-hotmail.com> Listsibs, I haven't recieved any list mail for a few days now, and I was wondering if I somehow managed to unsubscribe to the list or something. Would someone please email me offlist at sharry_lynn-+AT+-hotmail.com if this post does make it to the list? Thanks! --Lovesinger ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2191 **********************************