moodwatcher & other crutches. Was:someone/somebody, etc.

[Dennis R. Preston]

C'mon larry. Stop being such a literlist about "hot stuff."

dInIs (a five-chili pepper eater his own self)

>Lynne Murphy writes:
>>
>>I don't set out to use the moodwatcher, as in putting the message
>>through the grammar checker on a word processor; I just leave
>>moodwatcher on, so that as I type things, chili peppers show up if
>>the "offensiveness" triggers are triggered.  I do this because I find
>>it terribly amusing to see how stupid the machine is.  Recently, I
>>was writing to a friend about the Ben Lee song "Cigarettes will Kill
>>You" and discovered that the words "kill you" together, even with
>>quote marks around them and an inanimate subject, merits the highest
>>number of chili peppers (three).  It's quite fun.
>>
>>For more info on Eudora's moodwatcher and how silly it is, see:
>>http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/10/24/moodwatch/index.html
>>
>So THAT's what I'm missing in my Eudora Pro 4.3.  Evidently, it's a
>new feature in "supported" versions of Eudora Pro 5.0 and up.  Is
>there a presupposition that the more chili peppers the worse?  That
>certainly doesn't work for me.
>
>larry


Dennis R. Preston
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