On Mar 24, 5:22 pm, Kellie Allen <kaal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> rec.poesy.terriblyserious.awful - I'm going to have to start reading
> that group. That's where I need to be.
>
> I find that the usual postings on this list so, well, *relevant* to
> old-time music, and who needs that? Who needs relevance when there are
> so many ridiculous irrelevancies to waste half of one's life on? (Oh
> my, now I've done it. I can only assume that I will be assailed for
> ending a sentence with a preposition).
>
> Kellie Allen
>
> On Mar 24, 6:13=EF=BF=BDpm, Lyle Lofgren <lylelofg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 24, 4:32 pm, sebmlebm <sebml...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > > I just joined another, unrelated, Google newsgroup. It had an option
> > > available to allow one to receive individual emails as they are
posted=
> > > vice a daily digest. The edit subscription page of this group
doesn't
> > > display that option. Can whoever runs this group make that option
> > > available for those that desire it, please?
>
> > Well, we would, except as far as I can tell, nobody runs it. If they
> > did, we would have been spared the recent slugfest by a poetaster and
> > a couple of denigrators, mainly concerning correct spelling rather
> > than pointing out that spelling wasn't the problem.
>
> > Actually Google handles this, not Usenet. Click on "subscribe to this
> > group," and you'll get a screen that gives you the option of getting
e-
> > mails whenever anyone posts. That's probably a good idea, given the
> > recent sparseness of postings, but if someone actually comes up with a
> > hot topic (and it happens occasionally), you may find yourself with
> > more e-mails than you know what to do with. Fortunately, they're
> > hardly ever as rancorous as the recent outburst, which was bleed-
> > through from another group, I think maybe
> > rec.poesy.terriblyserious.awful.
>
> > Lyle
Kellie, at least you didn't make the same mistake as Elliot Spitzer:
ending a sentence with a proposition.
Lyle
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