Manitoulin Island-Radio.Net ~ Rules for Emails

Thou shalt always include a clear and specific subject line.

Thou shalt edit any quoted text down to the minimum thou needest.

Thou shalt read thine own message thrice before thou sendest it.

Thou shalt ponder how thy recipient might react to thy message.

Thou shalt check thy spelling and thy grammar.

Thou shalt not curse, flame, spam, or USE ALL CAPS.

Thou shalt not forward any chain letter.

Thou shalt not use e-mail for any illegal or unethical purpose.

Thou shalt not rely on the privacy of e-mail, especially from work.

When in doubt, save thy message overnight and reread it in the light of day.

And, here's the "11^th Commandment" of E-Mail: That which thou findest
hateful to receive, sendest thou not unto others.

Lovely Wildflower ~ Wagg's Park, Manitoulin Island
© 2002-6 by SLaF, Cricket Hill ~The Digital Darkroom,
Original Digital Photography, All Rights Reserved

Speaking of Emailings!
NetCard ~ Prototype 1

The Beaver Road Marsh Namesake, Manitoulin Island
© 2002-6 by SLaF & JVP, Cricket Hill ~ The Digital Darkroom,
Original Digital Photography, All Rights Reserved

The above piece of 'Digital Graphic Fun' could be used as a "fancy digital attachment"
[roughly 200kb], to an email, for any occasion ~ for example, a Birthday, an
Anniversary, or just to say Thanks You, or How Are You Doing?!

A Photograph/Image on the Top Section and a brief Message and Other Information
Entered on the Lower Half ~ in any 'layers-enabled' imaging program!!

JVP>

Barn Yard ~ Winter's Light, Manitoulin Island
© 2002-6 by SLaF, Cricket Hill ~The Digital Darkroom,
Original Digital Photography, All Rights Reserved

And Speaking of Email ...!

An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor. The manager
there arranges for him to take an aptitude test (Section: Floors: Sweeping and Cleaning).

After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum wage. Let me have
your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and tell you where to
report for work on your first day." Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a
computer nor an e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that
means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed."

Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in his wallet,
he decides to buy a 25 lb. flat of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than two
hours, he sells all the tomatoes individually at 100% profit.

Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before
going to sleep that night.

                   Bulletin Board Photographs, Manitoulin Island
                    © 2002-6 by SLaF,Cricket Hill ~The Digital Darkroom,
                                Original Digital Photography, All Rights Reserved

And, thus, it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes.
Getting up early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits quickly.
After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes,
only to have to trade it in again so that he can buy a pick-up truck to support his
expanding business.

By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages
a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. Planning for the
future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with
an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan. At the end of the telephone
conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final
documents electronically.

                                        The Beaver Road Marsh, Manitoulin Island
                                                               © 2002-6 by SLaF,Cricket Hill ~The Digital Darkroom,
                                                                    Original Digital Photography, All Rights Reserved

When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned, "What, you
don't have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without
the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would be now, if you
had been connected to the internet from the very start!"

After a moment of thought, the successful tomato entrepreneur replied, "Why, of course!
I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!"

Moral of this story is ~

1. The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire.
3. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to becoming a
janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.
4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to the cleaners
by Microsoft.