Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-penn.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!202.14.100.1!status.gen.nz!clear.net.nz!auckland.ac.nz!p.kerr From: p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz (Peter Kerr) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW Date: 23 Apr 1998 05:00:59 GMT Organization: School of Music University of Auckland Lines: 7 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: p.kerr.mus.auckland.ac.nz X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.2.0b6 you get a printed memo with a phrase underlined for emphasis, and you want to click on it to follow the link... -- Peter Kerr bodger School of Music chandler University of Auckland NZ neo-Luddite ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.best.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!gondor!rohan!stremler From: stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu (Stewart Stremler) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 23 Apr 1998 07:00:48 GMT Organization: San Diego State University Lines: 16 Message-ID: <6hmov0$1hk$1@gondor.sdsu.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: rohan.sdsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Peter Kerr (p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz) wrote: > you get a printed memo with a phrase underlined for emphasis, > and you want to click on it to follow the link... That's not hacking. (And why not hit return instead of clicking? Doesn't everyone who reads this newsgroup use Lynx as their primary browser?) It's when you _write_ a memo, longhand, and you use underscores instead of underlining. -- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. You're heavily armed." -Chad Irby ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-penn.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!peerfeed.ncal.verio.net!calwebnntp!news.IAEhv.nl!IAE.nl!perry From: Perry Rovers Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 23 Apr 1998 23:24:49 GMT Organization: Internet Access Eindhoven, the Netherlands Lines: 14 Message-ID: <6hoik1$bh5$3@news.IAEhv.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: iaehv.iaehv.nl User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE (i386)) Pink elephants with an attitude inspired Peter Kerr to tell alt.folklore.computers: : you get a printed memo with a phrase underlined for emphasis, : and you want to click on it to follow the link... You read a headline: "Spanning in Moskou neemt toe" ('tension in Moscow rises' in Dutch, and think you read "Spamming in Moskou neemt toe".. "Great.. I'm just going there, let me pack my baseballbat and some anti-spamming software".. -- Perry Rovers, IAE Systemmangler, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 'The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door...' the shortest SF-story ever, by Fredric Brown. ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!masternews.telia.net!newspost.telia.com!news.lejonet.se!not-for-mail From: Ingvar Mattsson Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 24 Apr 1998 14:21:06 +0200 Organization: Foreningen Lejonet, Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <6hmov0$1hk$1@gondor.sdsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.idasys.se X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu (Stewart Stremler) writes: > > Peter Kerr (p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz) wrote: > > you get a printed memo with a phrase underlined for emphasis, > > and you want to click on it to follow the link... > > That's not hacking. (And why not hit return instead of clicking? Doesn't > everyone who reads this newsgroup use Lynx as their primary browser?) > > It's when you _write_ a memo, longhand, and you use underscores > instead of underlining. Is it equally bad to place stars around a word, to emphasize it? //Ingvar (has done that, more than once) -- Sysadmin, disgruntled, unpolite. I don't speak for my employer nor do they speak for me. Accept this and life will be easier. ingvar@idasys.se ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-penn.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!btnet-peer!btnet-feed1!btnet!peer.news.zetnet.net!zetnet.co.uk!not-for-mail From: lisard@zetnet.co.uk Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 24 Apr 1998 18:50:20 GMT Lines: 13 Message-ID: <6hqmtc$tj5$4@irk.zetnet.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: man-191.dialup.zetnet.co.uk X-Everything: Net-Tamer V 1.08X On 1998-04-23 p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz(PeterKerr) said: :you get a printed memo with a phrase underlined for emphasis, :and you want to click on it to follow the link... you're typing in word, and to show emphasis, you surround the emphasised word with two asterisks like *so*... then you realise, and you write a macro to correct it... -- Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her... ###### Path: ccw.ch!usenet From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 16:59:28 +0200 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3541FA50.49C9E98E@ccw.ch.remove> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i486) Peter Kerr wrote: > > you get a printed memo with a phrase underlined for emphasis, > and you want to click on it to follow the link... Or you are reading an book or magazine. When you reach the bottom of the page you try to press space for the next page. And are for a short time surprised that nothing happens. At least the "oh its a book" came before "has it crashed?". -- private: Neil.Franklin@ccw.ch.remove http://www.ccw.ch/Neil.Franklin/ office: franklin@arch.ethz.ch.remove http://caad.arch.ethz.ch/~franklin/ This computer has 2 cats, one in /bin, one on top purring. ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-penn.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!taos.demon.co.uk!!dg From: dg@ (David Given) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:15:04 GMT Organization: I'm organised? Wow! Message-ID: <893682904.26051.0.nnrp-05.9e9878e0@news.demon.co.uk> References: <6hmov0$1hk$1@gondor.sdsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: taos.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: taos.demon.co.uk:158.152.120.224 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 893682904 nnrp-05:26051 NO-IDENT taos.demon.co.uk:158.152.120.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Lines: 16 In article , Ingvar Mattsson wrote: [...] >Is it equally bad to place stars around a word, to emphasize it? Been there, done that. Also use abbreviations like IIRC or AFAIR on paper. The thing *I* do is when I see a large pile of paper, and want to look something up, my natural inclination is to grep it. -- +- David Given ----------------+ | Work: dg@tao.co.uk | Reality is for people who can't cope | Play: dg@freeyellow.com | with science fiction. +- http://wiredsoc.ml.org/~dg -+ ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeed.uk.ibm.net!sackheads.org!ibm.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!newshost.cyberramp.net!not-for-mail From: stephedanospam@cyberramp.net (Dan Stephenson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:42:39 -0500 Organization: posted via: CyberRamp.net, Dallas, TX (214) 343-3333/(817) 461-8484 for info Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <6hqmtc$tj5$4@irk.zetnet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal-tsa19-45.cyberramp.net X-Newsreader: Anawave Gravity v2.00.779 In article <6hqmtc$tj5$4@irk.zetnet.co.uk>, lisard@zetnet.co.uk says... > > > On 1998-04-23 p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz(PeterKerr) said: > :you get a printed memo with a phrase underlined for emphasis, > :and you want to click on it to follow the link... > > you're typing in word, and to show emphasis, you surround the emphasised > word with two asterisks like *so*... > > then you realise, and you write a macro to correct it... Or your write a Word macro which interprets :wq as 'Save, Close'. > Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling -- Dan Stephenson "To conquer death, you only have to die" - JC If replying by email, please note the nospam in the address. ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeed.uk.ibm.net!sackheads.org!ibm.net!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!sun4nl!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!tnglwood.demon.co.uk!unclebob From: Robert Billing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: Tue, 28 Apr 98 07:15:54 GMT Message-ID: <893747754snz@tnglwood.demon.co.uk> References: <6hmov0$1hk$1@gondor.sdsu.edu> <893682904.26051.0.nnrp-05.9e9878e0@news.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: unclebob@tnglwood.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-User: unclebob@tnglwood.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-Path: post-20.mail.demon.net!post.mail.demon.net!tnglwood.demon.co.uk X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 893753354 4380 unclebob tnglwood.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 Lines: 16 In article <893682904.26051.0.nnrp-05.9e9878e0@news.demon.co.uk> dg@ "David Given" writes: > The thing *I* do is when I see a large pile of paper, and want to look > something up, my natural inclination is to grep it. ...or when Picard says to Data, "Search the logs and see if you can find any references to..." and you actually say "grep" out loud. -- I am Robert Billing, Christian, inventor, traveller, cook and animal lover, I live near 0:46W 51:22N. http://www.tnglwood.demon.co.uk/ "Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room three" ###### Date: 28 Apr 98 09:59:17 -0800 From: "Charlie Gibbs" Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW References: <6hmov0$1hk$1@gondor.sdsu.edu> <893682904.26051.0.nnrp-05.9e9878e0@news.demon.co.uk> <893747754snz@tnglwood.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: <636.422T865T5994174@sky.bus.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Lines: 19 X-Newsreader: THOR 2.5a (Amiga;TCP/IP) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.skybus.com Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-backup-west.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!204.244.4.2!news.westel.com!news.skybus.com!204.244.247.124 In article <893747754snz@tnglwood.demon.co.uk> unclebob@tnglwood.demon.co.uk (Robert Billing) writes: >In article <893682904.26051.0.nnrp-05.9e9878e0@news.demon.co.uk> >dg@ "David Given" writes: > >> The thing *I* do is when I see a large pile of paper, and want to >> look something up, my natural inclination is to grep it. > > ...or when Picard says to Data, "Search the logs and see if you can >find any references to..." and you actually say "grep" out loud. I never did that. But think of what a log is. "You can't grep dead trees." -- cgibbs@sky.bus.com (Charlie Gibbs) Remove the first period after the "at" sign to reply. ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!jobone!dailyplanet.srl.ford.com!eccws1.dearborn.ford.com!longhorn!tph From: tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom Harrington) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 28 Apr 1998 15:41:21 GMT Organization: Mechanist Industries Lines: 13 Message-ID: <6i4tb1$oap2@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com> References: <6hmov0$1hk$1@gondor.sdsu.edu> Reply-To: tph@rmi.net NNTP-Posting-Host: cs0053.eld.ford.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Stewart Stremler (stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu) wrote: : It's when you _write_ a memo, longhand, and you use underscores : instead of underlining. Or when you type things which would really be better hand-written, because you're much more comfortable with a keyboard than with a pen or pencil. -- Tom Harrington --------- tph@rmii.com -------- http://rainbow.rmii.com/~tph "There's such a fine line between cleverness and stupidity." -Spinal Tap Cookie's Revenge: ftp://ftp.rmi.net/pub2/tph/cookie/cookies-revenge.sit.hqx ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-penn.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!globalcenter0!news.primenet.com!not-for-mail From: nickb@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 28 Apr 1998 21:37:01 -0700 Organization: PrImE NuT (602)864-1005 <--- <--- <--- Lines: 16 Message-ID: <6i6apd$30n@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <6hmov0$1hk$1@gondor.sdsu.edu> <6i4tb1$oap2@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com> X-Posted-By: nickb@206.165.6.203 (nickb) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test58 (13 May 97) In article <6i4tb1$oap2@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com>, Tom Harrington wrote: >Stewart Stremler (stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu) wrote: > >: It's when you _write_ a memo, longhand, and you use underscores >: instead of underlining. > >Or when you type things which would really be better hand-written, because >you're much more comfortable with a keyboard than with a pen or pencil. I usually do it because pieces of scrap paper are harder to find than 20-byte files in C:\. -- Nick Bensema 98-KUPD Red Card #710563 UIN: 2135445 ~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-penn.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mel.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au!wombat.cs.monash.edu.au!not-for-mail From: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 30 Apr 1998 12:54:02 +1000 Organization: This is innd taking over... Lines: 26 Message-ID: <6i8p4a$r82$1@wombat.cs.monash.edu.au> References: <6hmov0$1hk$1@gondor.sdsu.edu> <6i4tb1$oap2@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com> <6i6apd$30n@nntp02.primenet.com> Reply-To: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: modem10.cs.monash.edu.au X-NNTP-Posting-User: root nickb@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) writes: >In article <6i4tb1$oap2@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com>, >Tom Harrington wrote: >>Or when you type things which would really be better hand-written, because >>you're much more comfortable with a keyboard than with a pen or pencil. >I usually do it because pieces of scrap paper are harder to find than >20-byte files in C:\. Not to mention that pieces of scrap paper have a habit of getting lost (which isn't at all unlike files in ~bmeyer/some_obscure_directory), _and_ reside in a space which doesn't readily lend itself to the likes of find | xargs grep "some important name I know I wrote something down about" Or, in other words --- if it's in the computer, the computer can do the searching for me. If it's somewhere on my desk, I have to personally conquer the mess. Bernie -- ============================================================================ "It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy... ...let's go exploring" Calvin's final words, on December 31st, 1995