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E-Mail Thoughts

Email is a wonderful thing for anyone that has mastered it. No more postage, almost instant delivery, misspellings accepted --- what? Not true. Your email reflects upon you. Carelessly composed messages make you look bad and more often ignorant. It is like the listener that wrote me one time to tell me how little that I knew about computers and how he knew so much more. Although, it gave me a certain satisfaction to be able to point out to him that he misspelled stupid in his email message. This is similar to many politicians and news organizations criticizing the current administration myopically on emotionally charged incidents and not stepping back to see the bigger picture of what we are accomplishing. The bigger picture with email is spell things correctly or as a minimum use the spelling check in AOL or Outlook to make sure that your email accurately represents you.

I loved automatic spelling checkers in PC software. When they first appeared, I believed that I was a good speller and a poor typist (I flunked typing in a big way – if my grade could have been in negative or imaginary numbers the teacher would have used them). Automatic spell checkers it seemed to me would turn the tide for me here. Of course after using them, I discovered that my typing was much better than I had previously thought and that my spelling was much worse than I chose to believe. PCs are brutal – no emotions or forgiveness.

With email you can send messages and pictures as long as they do not exceed specific limits. Keep in mind that there are no limits and cautions on misspelling. AOL messages including attachments cannot be larger than 16 MB. There are limitations imposed by both sending and receiving email providers. Several times I have sent messages via AOL that were rejected by another ISP. This means it is important to read the MAILER-DAEMON and similar messages to determine exactly was and was not delivered.

Inserting pictures in email is as easy as dragging them from a picture folder and dropping them into the email at the appropriate spot. Alternatively, pointing exactly to the image, clicking the left mouse button, then clicking the right mouse button, selecting copy from the pop-up menu, then pointing to the spot in the email message where the picture is to go and clicking the right mouse button again, then selecting paste may be easier for some people than the drag and drop method. Pictures in email are good unless like me most of them have you posing with PC memory DIMMs sticking out of your mouth like Walrus tusks.

Programs and other files can be attached to email as well. Newer versions of Outlook are configured to delete (not pass) files that are EXE, COM, and ZIP because they could contain harmful viruses. So what you send may not get through. Of course you can rename the file removing the filtered extension and make a note to the recipient to rename the file to its original name before using it.

Sending email to multiple recipients requires some courtesy as well. Do not just send to a list of email addresses where anyone can read those addresses and send them to a spammer. All email can be publicly viewed by someone, so keep in mind that email is not necessarily private. Send the message to your self with blind copies (BCC) sent to everyone else. In AOL email addresses enclosed in parentheses are designated as blind copies. Only a single set of parentheses are needed for all addresses.

Email and enjoy!


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