[X Newbies] Mac Mail Question

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 23:20 Canada/Eastern, Vincent Cayenne 
wrote:

> I'm sure I have no idea how to go about the post-modern part.

Try "syntactical, semantic or comprehensive contortion". I'd say you're 
on the right path.

> I only do plain claptrap.

As long as it's both semantic and contorted, or only comprehensive?

> See original query, pray.

It was:

> How do I get my picture in my emails like some of you have? Will it 
> show up then in all my email messages even to people using other mail 
> programs?

Why was cricket incorrect? Because he said:

> all users of Mail (and .Mac webmail) that receive messages from you 
> (from your .Mac address) will see this picture automatically. There is 
> no configuration required.

That was incorrect because, as I pointed out, if the option "Display 
images and embedded objects in HTML messages" is turned off, the 
picture will not be seen (unless it has been previously cached). 
TheMacintoshLady's reply to the original query was

> This is a setting in your mail accounts prefs to show it as a link or a
> file.

True, it was wrong in the "show it as a link or file" -- but it was 
right in that there was a setting that would turn the picture display 
on or off. Rather than "completely and in-no-way-related-to-the-query 
incorrect", it was both partially correct, and definitely related to 
the query. And cricket was "definitively" wrong "(and boy do I mean 
'definitively')" in stating that there was no such preference. So, if 
our main concern is "the elucidation of others who are better served by 
correct information than by completely erroneous offerings" 
(incidentally, what about the partially erroneous offerings?), then 
surely the self-professed software entomologist (what could be more 
post-modernist than that, I wonder?) must be corrected.

f