Re: archive & gum printing problems!

Risa S. Horowitz (babbleon@terraport.net)
Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:29:51 -0500

Thanks Judy
My task for my day off this week is indeed to edit out redundant and
unnecessary information in the first batch of archives I've recieved.
Risa
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>And Risa, if you're reading this far -- some hints for saving paper when
>printing out the archive (Watch out for that Greg Schmitz. He's like
>those 19th century photographers who wrote up those IMPOSSIBLE-to-do
>things, like making a densitometer out of an old watch dial, and the
>opening sentence was always "it's easy.")
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>If your computer has a global "change" utility, take out the line breaks
>and make each line much wider. I use only half-inch margins on all sides.
>Then change the type to 10 point, rather than the default 12 point. And
>delete not just the big headers and the "funny" footers on screen (I save
>only sender, date & subject line, which fits on two lines), but the
>interior repetitions of entire posts that some people send with their
>one-line reply. There's also of course a lot of other stuff (about for
>instance things that aren't about gum printing) you can delete on
>screen...... Have fun. You're gonna love it.
>
>Judy
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