From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 10/25/01-07:48:00 PM Z
Nathan,
Thanks for the good tip. I turned "moodwatch" off and am now in a
potentially politically incorrect situation!!
Sandy King
>You can turn off the "moodwatch" by going to the "tools" menu and
>selecting "options." Then scroll down until you find the annoying
>little red pepper "moodwatch" icon and disable it.
>
>Nathan Bramall
>
>At 01:56 PM 10/25/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>Absolutely serious. The feature irritates me so much I contacted
>>Qualcomm about it so see how to turn the PC feature off but they
>>never replied.
>>
>>What happens is that if you type in a word that the program finds
>>offensive your message gets glossed with of one to three bright red
>>peppers. Then, when you try to send the message you get a warning
>>to the effect that this message could result in getting your mouth
>>washed out with soup (or something like this) if it goes out. If
>>you click to send anyway the program queues up the message and
>>leaves on the queue for about 30 minutes before actually sending it.
>>
>>
>>
>>Sandy King
>>
>>
>>>A PC checker in an email program? Are you serious?
>>>
>>>Bill
>>>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>>>From: Sandy King <sanking@CLEMSON.EDU>
>>>Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>>>Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:29:21 -0400
>>>
>>>>Christina Anderson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Actually, Jack--male pattern baldness is related to increased testosterone
>>>>>levels which in turn is related to increased sex drive, so think
>>>>>of it this
>>>>>way--the more hair you lose, the more of a stud you are!
>>>>>Chris
>>>>>PS I suppose that is not politically correct to use that kind of
>>>>>terminology
>>>>>on this list??
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sandy, I appreciate your humor but it doesn't compare to my
>>>>>>fear of losing
>>>>>> my hair! You know, Samson and Delilah.
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Jack
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This is good news since my hair is in about the same condition as
>>>>that of Jack!!
>>>>
>>>>On the PC front, you should know that the use of the word *stud*
>>>>rates one and one/half red peppers on my truly PC mail program
>>>>(Eudora 5.1). By contrast, Van Dyke, gets three full red peppers, and
>>>>gets put on a timed queue, presumably giving the creator a chance to
>>>>reconsider including such politically incorrect language in the
>>>>message before it actually goes out!
>>>>
>>>>Sandy King
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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