Oh, No!
I want to apologize to Jan, and the entire list....
I've taken too long to respond to this. Just now logged on for
today....had a tooth pulled, so haven't bothered logging on till now.
Jan, I in NO way meant this as a personal affront!
Please, please don't take it personally! You are to be commended for
trying to solve a problem all of us face....that of spam from having
our addresses on the Internet!
Debi is right. I was just trying to give another perspective, and
no, I didn't see the second option!
This has evolved into something that I never intended, nor would
wish....for you or anyone.
I'm sorry for your tears. Truly, I am. Again.....it was NOT meant
as a personal affront!
I had mentioned the blind list I'm on.....and that's where I learned
that their programs they use (JAWS) for converting plain text into
Braille for them to read, and thus was passing on the
information. That's it. Apparently my wording has hit a nerve, and
I DO apologize for that!
Jan, I don't know what to do to convince you that I AM sorry, and
wish you'd be able to see that I didn't intend to do anything but
explain that what I was seeing wouldn't work for some.
Mari
At 12:59 PM 1/27/2006, Jan Cortez wrote:
My apologies Mari...... I guess I haven't realized yet that I
cannot say anything on WIGEN- without it being taken the wrong
way. God, I must be a horrid person......
I really think its time for me to reassess my priorities and maybe
completely removing myself from USGenWeb is the route to take. I'll
be thinking that over for a few weeks while I stay away from this computer.
I have cried over this this morning until I am sick and I NEVER ever
want to have to repeat this again.
Jan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mari" <ddmmjm(a)netins.net>
To: <WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] State Page and Email
>Hi, Jan.......
>I was real excited about this till I saw what's done. If I
>understand correctly, a person has to enter the letters into the
>box before they are able to use the email address on the site? If
>so, then this isn't very user friendly to the low vision and blind
>people....one of which I am.
>
>I belong to a blind-knitters mailing list. Yes,
>blind-knitters! You'd be amazed at their expertise!! It's mind
>boggling. Problem is, when confronted with the jumbled letter
>verification technique, they are left out of it. Obviously they
>can't see the letters, and their software that they use to convert
>the web pages into Braille can't read it either. So, unless their
>spouse, or someone in the household is sighted, they aren't able to
>participate.
>
>I don't know how many blind genealogists there are "out there", but
>there are many, many seniors, who I'm sure don't see as well as
>they used to...including me.
>
>I've campaigned in IAGen to make the pages user friendly to
>all...including those with visual problems, I would hope that
>WIGen would follow the same road.....
>
>Mari
>Dane CC
>
>At 08:38 PM 1/26/2006,Jan Cortez wrote:
>>Tina,
>>
>>Pat Hamp, my ASC with the MIGenWeb, who is very computer literate,
>>has managed to go thru our state page and to encode everyone's
>>email to cut down on the amount of spam that we get.
>>
>>Is it possible for you to do the same with the WI State Page? I
>>know it takes a bit of time - but, once done, would only take a
>>minute to make changes at a later date.
>>
>>She uses this nifty little page:
>>http://w2.syronex.com/jmr/safemailto/#noscript
>>
>>It creates the script - and even I was trainable on how to do
>>it. LOL I plan to go thru all my sites and encode all
>>email. I've positively had it with all this spam.
>>
>>Thanks for any consideration.
>>
>>Jan
>
>
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