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On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 10:56:16 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Nice repartee on the side there. I'm actually just resurfacing from yet |
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> another user account creation, because the message database yesterday |
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> was just an indescribable mess. |
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> Touch wood, this one might have succeeded after a good deal of finger- |
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> twiddling to give KMail time to do all its marking as read, moving |
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> folders into place and so on. Also frequent reboots to establish a firm |
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> basis. |
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> It means that I've lost any messages from the last two days, but at |
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> least I have Joost's detailed one to continue from. |
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Maybe this would be a good time to set up a local IMAP server... |
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> ("Never end a sentence with a preposition" - so we were taught. |
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> Personally, I think a preposition is a perfectly good word to end a |
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> sentence with. An adverb will also do nicely.) |
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Don't forget split infinitives - the construct that is absolutely |
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forbidden, but no one knows why. I had a production editor who picked me |
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up every time I used one. I pointed out that that battle was lost as soon |
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as Star Trek became mainstream. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Q. How many radical feminists does it take to change a light bulb? |
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A. Two - one to change the bulb and one to write a book about the passive |
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role of the socket. |
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