On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > I have to agree with you Beth. Here's a copy of my message to > [email protected]: > > << << > I'm afraid I find all those underlines extremely distracting when trying to > read through a > message. [snip] Yes, the distraction factor is very high, especially when those balloons come flying out at you. The message area is small enough, and the balloons large enough, that almost no matter where you point your cursor something's popping out to interrupt the train of thought. Also, when cleaning up the surname area in message, I often copy particularly unusual surnames rather than retype them and possibly make a spelling error. That's going to be difficult to do now. I think the idea is good, but it needs to be made more practical for users and admins. Beth -- "There are more molecules of water in a cup of water than cups of water in all the world's oceans. This means that some molecules in every cup of water you drink passed through the kidneys of Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Abe Lincoln, or any other historical person of your choosing." Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse in the Washington Post.

Beth said "when cleaning up the surname area in message, I often copy particularly unusual surnames rather than retype them and possibly make a spelling error. That's going to be difficult to do now." I do the same, and am working on some at the moment. The good news is that those irritating new links are not visible when editing a post. The article says to send feedback to [email protected] I plan to do that, hope many of you reading this list will too, so that the message gets through that this is not an acceptable "improvement". Kind Regards, Wendy Howard -- Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/>

Thanks, Wendy -- that definitely is good news! Beth On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Wendy Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Beth said "when cleaning up the surname area in message, I often copy > > particularly unusual surnames rather than retype them and possibly make > a spelling error. That's going to be difficult to do now." > > I do the same, and am working on some at the moment. The good news is > that those irritating new links are not visible when editing a post. [snip] -- "There are more molecules of water in a cup of water than cups of water in all the world's oceans. This means that some molecules in every cup of water you drink passed through the kidneys of Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Abe Lincoln, or any other historical person of your choosing." Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse in the Washington Post.