>Eudora dropped quote marks on me again in the posts that appeared today! >Please, don't confuse my remarks with those of the Killians or of >Danielle... > >Now, I am trying inserting capitalized "Start Quote" and "End Quote" >statements. That's why they are there, Bill!... > >I am not schizophrenic, LOL! The reason it sounds like several people >wrote what was in those posts was because several people DID, but my >program dropped the quote marks once again... > >At 1:45 PM -0500 12/15/01, Risa wrote: >>They go to a vet clinic where they can be operated on by people training THANK YOU you so very much, Bill (BIG)! It's obvious that the glitch or bug in my program was causing as much confusion for you as for everyone else. It's been annoying the heck out of me because something will be readable when it goes out but then when it appears on list it's been impossible or nearly impossible to tell what I wrote as opposed to what was being quoted. In my "out" box the stuff looks fine, but then it apparently strips quote marks on sending. Now, it seems that "START QUOTES"/"END QUOTES" works because the lines appeared as quotes but without the words yesterday. Since i expect that was due to you putting in extra time, don't worry. Others can figure that out from the words rather than you having to insert a mark on each line for me. You already work so hard. I extend apologies for all the confusion and frustration this problem has caused people; as you can imagine it has annoyed and frustrated me as well. [BIG says: gotta go over it anyhow so why not take out the extra words.] Lisette wrote: >boxes stacked inside each other that I had never used. I had stored them >on the top shelf of a closet a good seven feet in the air. > >I just pulled the litter boxes down and I am staring in disbelief. The >top litter box has dozens of dried up ferret poopies!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Astro-turd! >Thank You for correcting me. Since laws do change with out other states >knowing, I know if I was wrong somebody would let me know. I was not >trying to flame any state or person or start trouble. I was only wanting >to share a letter I received from the Gov. of California & Dept of Fish & >Game. > >... I took the info as gospel since it was a good source where I >obtained the info. I can't recall the source you used. If your dad then just a town one that was out of date, if the CA bureaucrats then they have been known to say false stuff before in relation to other states. They list NJ as having restrictions on ferrets even though it's just that we have inexpensive permits that can be bought from petty cash for non-breeders/non-sellers/non-shelters, and other reasonable permits for other folks. Those aren't restrictions in the way their materials imply. They printed that one of the New England states had shore birds killed by ferrets when that wasn't true; I asked the appropriate F&G expert in the state mentioned and was told that they have been trying to get that fake quote, which was totally created in CA as far as they could tell, dropped for a long time. The CA people asked the man I spoke with back then IF it was possible that IF a ferret which knew how to hunt got loose in a colony of nesting shorebirds IF it might kill off chicks, and the New England expert said that if all the "IFs" were met then it might be possible. The CA people turned that into a mention of it having happened and being a real threat. Have lost my letters on that now and have even forgotten which state it was, but expect that they exist elsewhere since I got the info and contact information out afterward, and also because other ferret-community people asked him, if memory serves. Of course, the chain of falsehoods goes on too long to list... [Posted in FML issue 3634]