JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT!!!!! Environmental
responsibility. Fiscal responsibility. Personal responsibility. (... we
can't withstand another four years of Bush Junior...)
Sorry that my first message to this
group should be concerned with a technicality rather than with Rosen's ideas,
but there it is.
I find it virtually impossible to read Judith's messages
until they have been quoted by someone else, because they come out with an
enormously wide window. The last one, "Another excerpt on modelling", requires
horizontal scrolling even if I put it on a giant window 2624 pixels wide
spanning the total width of two monitors! I think the problem lies in the
parameter shown as the Content-type. For example, messages rom Dan Fiscus
include a header that reads
As
Judith appears to be using Outlook Express she may be stuck with whatever
microsoft have decided is best, but maybe not. Are there other OE users who know
how to configure it to send intelligible messages? It might be just a matter of
setting it to send plain text and not HTML. Alternatively, does anyone
know how to set the ListServ servers so that it sends intelligible pages
regardless of how it receives the text? Choosing "Non-proportional font" at the
top of the age sometimes helps, but sometimes it makes things worse (as in the
particular case quoted).
Incidentally, sending HTML in messages wastes
enormous amounts of band-width. Judith's message on "Another excerpt on
modelling" contains 3378 characters of actual information, but what gets
transmiited through space is 9584 characters, because it's packed full of
garbage like
The lessons from biology turned out to be that
"adaptiveness?, while useful in economic systems,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>is not universally good;
too much of it, in the wrong places, will tear cooperative structures apart.
</FONT></EM></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;
mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA"><EM><FONT size=3></FONT></EM></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;
mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA"><EM><FONT size=3>
Indeed, ...
Even if you choose not to see all this garbage it's still
there: it still gets transmitted over the net, and it still needs to be
processed in some way when it gets to your computer.
I'll try to have
something more interesting to say the next time I
post.