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Re: (TV) OT - can you please trim your posts??
Hey, I feel your pain. Let me see how Yahoo does this.
A preliminary search into "Options" doesn't show that
I can control this. If anyone else on Yahoo knows how
to eliminate the additional text, let me know.
Regards,
Micah
--- caryn <clr@drizzle.com> wrote:
>
> here's an example of the kind of thing that DRIVES
> ME LOOPY. it's
> laziness, it's sloppy, and it's just plain bad
> manners on a mailing
> list. Micah had nothing to add but "radiohead
> rock", but in order to say
> that s/he added SEVENTY TWO extra lines to the
> digest, because s/he
> couldn't take a few seconds and chop out the posts
> s/he wasn't responding to.
>
> I don't mean to single out one particular lister, so
> please don't take it
> personally.
> I have to be on the digest because i get far too
> much email (and this is a
> personal account, not a work account - i STILL get
> too much email) but
> posts like this fill up the digest and make it
> worthless to me.
>
> can i ask please for some forethought and
> consideration from my fellow
> listers? thank you.
>
> oh, and for some ON TOPIC info, looks like
> television is confirmed for the
> ucla version of ATP.
> http://www.wayahead.com/atp/sy2001.htm
>
> --caryn
>
> <<Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:52:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Micah Bedwell <noahbrtn@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: (TV) OT: Radiohead is bigger than God
>
> Radiohead rock.
>
> NP: Fairport Convention "The Fairport Chronicles."
> - --- greggluvox <murderedman@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Eric Veillette wrote:
> > >
> > >If you take a listen to Can (like the "Saw
> Delight"
> > EP I was playing
> > earlier
> > this aft), you'll realize that Radiohead, in this
> > new incarnation, are
> > nowhere near the likes of the people they are
> trying
> > to emulate.
> >
> >
> > Maybe a little Pere Ubu thrown in to the mix, eh?
> > Tim Buckley's jazzy period
> > comes to mind (and Jeff for that matter). Since
> > nobody with a keyboard-type
> > device can run out of nice things to say about
> them,
> > I'll relate something a
> > dear friend noted upon the airplay of their first
> > single "Creep" - "Man,
> > they're Pavement for AM radio!" But what the
> hell, I
> > couldn't resist. They
> > were the absolute fave of an ex lover who jilted
> me,
> > so I admit I went
> > through an "I spit upon you Mr. Thom Yorke
> phase",
> > but after seeing them on
> > Saturday Night Live, after a few too many
> Scorpions
> > (a Chinese restaurant
> > Rum cocktail served in a bowl), I made a little
> > check mark in the air that
> > signified that I was now a fan. The next morning
> > however, it was aspirin,
> > ibuprofen and Lloyd Cole.
> >
> > As for the Beatles - good but I'll take the
> > Shirelles, Everly bros. and the
> > Cookies, thanks.
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > GL
> >
> > N.P.
> > The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine - The Walker Brothers
> > Unbelievable Guy - Diane Reney
> > This Little Girl Of Mine - Everly Brothers
> > Every single f'ing thing he ever played - Phil
> Ochs
> > Continental Drifters
> > Sweet Insanity - Brian Wilson (which segues
> nicely
> > with ...)
> > Brutal Youth - Elvis Costello (king-like
> appearance
> > on The Larry Sanders
> > Show, #1 reason to pay cable bill)
> >
> >
> > ---
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> > Date: 6/22/01
> >
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