Re: Stationary ver 3??
Ken Whiton
*-* In Article <NOCdnd7NSPm8nYfW...@mozilla.org>,
*-* Bob Jamieson wrote
*-* About Re: Stationary ver 3??
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote, On 12/04/2009 11:27 AM:
>> Arivald wrote:
>
>>> W dniu 2009-12-04 17:40, Beauregard T. Shagnasty pisze:
>>>> Bob Jamieson wrote:
>
>>>>> because the name of the add on, "Stationary",
>
>>>> Did the developer actually misspell it? Have you a link?
>>>>
>>>> "Stationery" :-)
>
>>> No, I spelled it correctly ;-)
>
>> But it was Mr Jamieson who said '"name of the add on, "Stationary"'
>> who spelled it incorrectly. It was a poke, but not at the
>> developer. <g>
>
>>> But because so many people like "a" instead of "e", i setup my
>>> filters to sort "Stationary" emails too.
>
>> I can understand the need for that. Incorrectly using the "a" is
>> far too common.
>>
>
> OK . . . it was me. I have a mnemonic for "principle" versus
> "principal", that being that the person that is the headmaster of a
> school is your "pal", hence "principal".
>
> But I don't have one for "stationary" versus "stationery", though I
> do recall hearing one somewhere. Anybody? (I guess "stand" might
> work as a mnemonic for "stationary").
Stationary: "a" = "anchored"
Stationery: "e" = "envelope"
[Cross-posted and follow-up set to mozilla.general]
Ken Whiton
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Ken Whiton
*-* In Article
<mailman.630.1260214150....@lists.mozilla.org>,
*-* Roy Smith wrote
*-* About Re: Stationary ver 3??
> On 12/7/2009 11:51 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> On 12/07/2009 01:01 AM, Richard wrote:
>>> What about people leaving long trails behind in emails for
>>> example, and oh the volumes of rubbish emails with pictures and
>>> video clips that get emailed to every one in an address book
>> Really? Come on! I have yet to ever have received a single video
>> clip in email! Have you? Be honest?
Hundreds of them, over the years.
> Just because you don't doesn't mean other don't. I get one every
> now and then from my Mom, who has forwarded it from another lady she
> knows. I can always tell when I'm getting one from her that either
> had a video clip attached, or several dozen pictures as the
> downloaded mail count seems to freeze for a bit.
In the interests of disk space conservation I detach large (over
approx. 1 MB) attachments to an "Attachments" folder on another partition:
C:\
Yes, Boss? dir e:\attachments\*.wmv
Volume in drive E is DRIVE_E
Volume Serial Number is 2A6F-1CD5
Directory of E:\Attachments
05/08/2008 02:26 PM 1,972,252 pinkeythelovingcat.wmv
<Balance of listing deleted for brevity.>
10/25/2009 03:23 PM 1,850,751 ScratchLotteryTickets_1.wmv
145 File(s) 357,118,651 bytes
0 Dir(s) 3,321,626,624 bytes free
C:\
Yes, Boss? dir e:\attachments\*.mpg
Volume in drive E is DRIVE_E
Volume Serial Number is 2A6F-1CD5
Directory of E:\Attachments
05/08/2008 02:50 PM 1,095,684 FinalBird.MPG
<Balance of listing deleted for brevity.>
10/25/2009 02:01 PM 1,882,116 GlowInTheDark-1.mpg
15 File(s) 36,594,825 bytes
0 Dir(s) 3,321,626,624 bytes free
C:\
Yes, Boss? dir e:\attachments\*.mpeg
Volume in drive E is DRIVE_E
Volume Serial Number is 2A6F-1CD5
Directory of E:\Attachments
05/19/2008 03:55 AM 1,245,836 InTheKitchen.mpeg
1 File(s) 1,245,836 bytes
0 Dir(s) 3,321,626,624 bytes free
Over 160 detached attachments in three video formats.