Headers

During his visit last year, mbernardi showed me how to configure Pegasus to allow me to download the headers of my e-mail messages, rather than the messages themselves; I can then pick and choose which messages I want downloaded, which I want deleted outright, and which I want to stay on the university server. This has been extremely handy; but identifying spam is sometimes harder than it sounds.

One of the mailing lists I belong to is that of the American Dialect Society, which (among other things) often discusses unusual words and phrases. Unfortunately, messages from that list are not marked as such, and sometimes it's a little hard to distinguish them from spam. I mean, what would you do about messages with subject headers like these?

Perfect storm, not negative
Happy Gay
curebie
Why Swedish is a backward language
Shoes sans toes
"Anal astigmatism" bad
Court rules you can't swear like a
Loses Something -- But Not Color --
Lesbos Lite

(Explanations will be provided upon request.)

106

What the heck.

The following list contains the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" at LibraryThing. As in, they sit on the shelf because you were supposed to read them for school or uni, because you felt you should read them because they are classics or because everyone else loves them. Or because it’s simply chique to have certain books on your shelves.

* Bold the ones you’ve read.
* Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.
* Add asterisks (*) to the ones you own.

( The List )