Re: Yogh in the news

On 1/12/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
>
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@M...> wrote:
>
> >I don't know why you people continue to use Yahoo! email.
> >Absolutely inexplicable.  It's like abused women who won't leave
> >their abusers.
>
> Please don't be angry, Mark.

Angry?   I'm not angry in the least.   That would be a totally silly
reaction.

Nor was I addressing the fact that I'd invited you to gmail.  I have
invitations galore, no loss if I send one that doesn't stick.

I was just confused about the combination of behaviors involving (1)
continuing to use Yahoo!, while (2) complaining about the lack of Unicode
support. :)


I just hadn't gotten around to downloading
> it.  And, to tell the truth, I'm rather paranoid about downloading
> stuff on my computer without someone standing at my side to help me
> should the computer blow up!

Well, you needn't worry in this case.  Neither Yahoo! email nor Google Mail
is anything that you have to download.  They're just websites that you
visit.  You don't need to run any sort of program other than your web
browser to use them.

Now how do I get it to operate?


Just point your web browser at http://mail.google.com/mail.  You should get
a login page; type in the username and password you just set up.

You won't see any of the old messages - those will still be over at Yahoo!.
That's a disadvantage of switching email addresses when using web-based
email like this - GMail isn't a new program to use to read your mail, it's a
whole new email address.  But you can always go back to Yahoo! to read
them.  In order to get something to read at gmail, you have to get someone
to send you email there.  I recommend subscribing to conlang with your new
address and using it for that for a while, to see if you like it or not.

And you don't have to delete anything - Yahoo! isn't a program either, it's
just a place you go to read email.


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>