Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 346.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:56:12 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: troubles
Dear colleagues:
In recent days we have discovered additional problems with the software
that processes Humanist archives and the software that takes care of
subscriptions. The problems are under investigation now. If you know anyone
who has been affected and is not likely to receive this message otherwise,
please forward it. In addition I had a machine crash at home (on the same
day that the washing machine died and the gas stove stopped working...),
which has meant that Humanist could not get my attention as regularly as it
ordinarily has. If you have submitted a message which after this morning's
posting has not appeared, please resubmit -- I simply cannot be sure that
messages have not gone astray somehow in all the attendant confusion.
On behalf of our family of automata, nostra maxima culpa!
So much for the troubles. Now the entertainment. I advise you to read
Humanist 14.0350 (1) very carefully. The latest Eudora, version 5.0, has a
new feature called "MoodWatch", which in loco parentis scans incoming and
outgoing e-mail messages for offensive content. It marks those it detects
as offensive with one, two or three chili-pepper icons to signify "might be
offensive", "is probably offensive" and (oi veh!) "is on fire",
respectively. So, MoodWatch looked at message (1) in 14.0350 and rated it
with TWO chili-peppers. Discovering why is an exercise for the reader. The
CEO of the company must not be named Richard!
Yours,
WM
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