Wendell & Andrew, I take the point that you are making, but I had retained the original header for a specific reason.
It is obvious that many posts to the list are from experienced linux users querying relatively obstruse points who are not, as I am, a first-time user with linux experience measured in single digit numbers of weeks still. Regretfully, therefore, only my own posts and replies thereto are of interest to me at present. I can contribute nothing to others and cannot even understand their problems at this stage. Under this header several people have rallied to provide valuable assistance for which I am so grateful you could not even begin to imagine. Thanks to Brenda, Karsten, dman, and others, I shall get my Linux email box up and running whatever the headers on my posts. >From my point of view there are two factors. One is that i live in the third world effectively 1000 miles up a 2000 mile dirt road, with a slow dial up connection which seldom exceeds 24000 bps (our local isp does not have even a 56k modem rack as hardly anybody even reaches 33.6k connections even. Cable modems and even ISDN are pie in the sky for most people here. Secondly, my line is so noisy I am sometimes not able to connect to my ISP for several days and when I do many many hundreds of emails await me. This last weekend it took over a minute to download even one email and I had to give up with over 400 waiting in the queue. I cannot read all of these messages en-masse and so filter out and delete anyhing other than those with my standard header. I thought that this was a reasonable solution. However, I have given the matter some thought and will see if a new header scheme will be more effective and useful to all. Regards Ian Ian Balchin ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fables Bookshop, 119 High Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone or Fax +27-(0)46-636-1525 cell: 083-495-7353 sms [EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Member Southern African Book Dealers Association http;//www.imaginet.co.za/fables A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit. -- Milton.
