Apples to Oranges

[Eric Albert]

>< And thanks for fixing the text. > -Kim I didn't.   Nor would I know how to.   I have a two-year old Mac and haven't changed a thing since buying it.   Have no idea why my posts are arriving to you so scrambled. Have heard that Apple and AOL are not the best fit, but have retained AOL since we travel a lot and there is free local access wherever we go. I checked with a couple of pals on the list and they haven't experienced your problem.   I assume you received my Sat. post since you responded to it.   And somehow you received the last one.   Weird. Hey at least we livened the list a bit over the weekend.   I have never understood why the list is so quiet on Saturdays and Sundays when folks are supposedly home with more free time than during the work week.   Must be lots of honeydo’s here... as in their wives saying "Honey do this, honey do this." No time for the list. Wonder what the odds are that Doc will be coaching here next season.   Last I heard, the owners were displeased with him, but Ainge was vigorously supporting him. Egg 

For me, the formatting of Egg's posts vary.  Some, like the one above, appear to be one long run-on paragraph, and are quite hard to read.  Others, the majority, are formatted clearly, with fairly short lines, and blank lines (presumably inserted by Egg) that make things even more readable.

It could be that, for some readers, all of her messages look well-formatted.  I can imagine that the above message includes, for example, line-feeds between lines (rather than the carriage-return line-feeds that my system expects), and so on.  (My mailer is Eudora 7.0.1, on Windows XP Pro, a pretty standard program.)

I haven't looked into the headers to see how Egg's two types of messages differ.  I doubt she's typing anything differently, so I assume the difference is in how they're sent: a different account, or a different computer, or a different mailer, or a different phase of the moon, or a different *something*.

I quickly checked messages for this year (What?  You don't keep complete archives for the Celtics Mailing List?), and this has been going on since at least January 28, 2006, "Re: A few quick thoughts while sipping coffee".  (I didn't check last year's message; it may have been going on much longer.)  Again, most messages look fine, but then one or more will crop up with no (apparent) formatting.

-- Eric