A timeless moment....

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by MooooMoo

Hey Anon (mdettweiler now),

Your PM box is 97% full?? Wow, what goes in there?

Mostly just correspondence between Gary (gd_barnes) and I regarding the administration of the No Prime Left Behind and Conjectures 'R Us projects. (And that's with both of us massively cleaning out our boxes periodically. ) I know we could use email, but personally I find PM's to be better for this purpose since it's somewhat easier to respond to individual paragraphs of a given message individually. Not to mention all the really cool smilies that you can't get in an email.

[henryzz]

Originally Posted by mdettweiler

Mostly just correspondence between Gary (gd_barnes) and I regarding the administration of the No Prime Left Behind and Conjectures 'R Us projects. (And that's with both of us massively cleaning out our boxes periodically. ) I know we could use email, but personally I find PM's to be better for this purpose since it's somewhat easier to respond to individual paragraphs of a given message individually. Not to mention all the really cool smilies that you can't get in an email.

mozilla thunderbird will do smilies although i dont know what programs can receive them so i havent used them

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by henryzz

mozilla thunderbird will do smilies although i dont know what programs can receive them so i havent used them

Yeah, I use Thunderbird too--but actually, I've found it actualy just puts the text smiley there, and then it (and other contemporary Mozilla clients) will interpret it as a graphical smiley--though in fact the process is not foolproof, since quite often if the message is in HTML instead of plain text it won't even notice that a text smiley is there.

What I do instead, though, is simply download some of my favorite mersenneforum smilies and save them on my hard drive, then use the "insert image" button to put them in my emails. That way, the actual image will be sent with my message and it should show up for everyone who can read HTML mail.

[Xyzzy]

What I do instead, though, is simply download some of my favorite mersenneforum smilies and save them on my hard drive, then use the "insert image" button to put them in my emails.

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[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

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Okay, great! Thanks! I've downloaded them all to my hard drive.