Re: Is there a way of doing it?

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Bud wrote:
>
>> In OE when I mail my friends and family, I dress it up with
>> stationary, various fonts and so on. I also insert a midi file which
>> plays when the mail is opened.
>
> Ack!!
>
>>  They all seem to enjoy it.
>
> I seriously doubt it.  I more imagine that they know that you enjoy
> putting it together and so they tolerate it for your amusement or
> enjoyment.  Or maybe about one 'kinda' likes it and the vast majority
> don't want to hurt your feelings by telling you that they have no use
> for it.
>
> People are very disinclined to tell someone that something that they put
> some effort into personalizing isn't their own cup of tea.  "I know you
> made that dress, but it is really ugly and I don't even like that style
> or those colors anyway."  Not gonna happen.
>
> They are glad to hear from you and they like what you have to say in the
> content, but in my mind and I don't know these people who are your
> family and not mine, I would imagine that they would almost all rather
> just hear from you.
>
> Why don't you send your next few letters as plaintext, and see how many
> request that you go back to doctoring them up.  Receiving that kind of
> 'stuff' should be an opt-in process, not an opt-out -- because it is a
> social issue and no one is going to opt-out.  Instead they are going to
> feign that they really like it.
>
> But, that's just my opinion -- I'm very 'opinioned' - as if that were
> somehow different from 'opinionated'.
>
>

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Actually I have the sound turned off all the time except when *I* want to 
listen to something special - then I turn it on to listen then off it goes 
again.

If I got one of those, I would not even be aware that it had 'music'. It may 
well be that a lot of his recipients do the same thing.
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> Mike Easter
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