[pianotech] Degree sign [was Hale Extension Rod]

[Joseph Alkana]

Oh, I forgot to mention that the instructions you gave below for interrogating my computer do not work as described. Clicking on view does not lead to an item on the menu labeled "Message Source", so I cannot duplicate what you want me to see. I've seen enough source material in the past to know what you are describing, however. You must have a different mail client than I do - mine is Microsoft office 2003 Outlook.

Would have been great for you to have pulled up a screen shot and sent it to me for clarification though, (a dig at you which I could have indicated with a smiley face here rather than bit after bit of written description ad naseum.

And I still think pictures, symbols and drawings and sound would all enhance the list experience. Even dense mathematical discourses are punctuated by formulae in the written paper. How could an architect communicate the magnificence of a building proposal with just a jillion words no picture? Describing a process or attempting to show a problem could be simplified so much with a picture - ending the repetitive requests for more information we see daily on this list. Bandwidth concerns? Hardly!!

Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 1:23 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Degree sign [was Hale Extension Rod]

Joseph Alkana wrote:
> Yep, we’re on the same page. Now what in the heck is a “masculine 
> ordinal indicator” and how is it useful in communication? Or tuning a 
> pianer? ☺☺☺
> 
>  
> 
> We’d best get back to another topic that has a lesser ° of 
> difficulty. Don’t you just ♥ it? This material is not ©, but if you 
> want to ® a complaint I will take ♪ of your concerns. I’m just a 
> ♂ trying to get along, so everyone have a ☼ day!
> 
> I’m off to Ω to some good ♫ now and have a piece of π.
> 
>  
> 
> Joseph Alkana RPT (Retired) ☻
> 
> Way too much ∞ on his hands


Joseph, David Love, and others,
Foot marks in plain text make just fine apostrophes, as inch 
marks work nicely as quotes. They're also more nearly 
decipherable in the text, and the message will happily come in 
around 10K shorter. Look at this in plain text mode and see 
how unreadable it is.

Humor me for a minute and open one of your messages in your 
mail client. Go to View, and click Message Source. Now scroll 
down through what was actually sent until you get past the 
header to the message. Now scroll down through the message. 
It'll take a while. Now do the same for a 3-4K text message. 
You'll see a similar mess of header stuff, but when you get to 
the message, it's there, it's short, and it displays on screen 
like readable text.

The thing is, I'd like to be able to read what you guys are 
saying.

Thanks,
Ron N