Yahoo Wins Again!/being old(ish)

[Martha]

Martha:
<paraphrased> Yahoo is pants, etc.

Catlady:
> Are you sending posts through your e-mail rather than from 
the "post"
> option on the website? If yes, can you check your settings on your
> e-mail (on Mozilla, it's Edit, Preferences, Mail & Newsgroups, Send
> Format) to see what it is set to do when "sending messages in HTML
> format and one or more recipients are not listed as being able to
> receive HTML". Me, I have clicked "Convert the message to plain text
> (some formatting may be lost)" but I think the default is "Send the
> message in both plain text and HTML", which I think sends really 
*two*
> messages.

Martha: 
I congratulate you on your technical knowledge and giant computer 
brain that knows everything. However, that can't possibly be the 
answer because I only ever post messages using the "post" option on 
the list - never via email, as I don't trust email, not at all. I 
just can't work out why it would be doing it - especially as the 
second copy is usually labelled as having appeared after I've come 
offline.

Hmm.

When I checked back and saw that message about posting twice, posted 
twice - I went "Yearp!" Not only is Evil Overlord Yahoo making me 
repeat myself... but IT KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

This is just too weird.

Laura Ingalls Huntley:
Well, it is now officially My Birthday.

God, I hate getting older.

P.S. Considering how depressing birthdays are at 19, I don't think 
I'll
be able to take it at 30 or 40. <snip snip>

Martha:
Laura, you are not alone. At 19 and at 20 I felt completely wretched -
 I spent weeks beforehand going "God I'm going to be so old and die 
alone smelling of wee and stale biscuits in a bedsit in Bristol with 
loads of stray cats..." etc. Now I'm 21 and I feel younger than I did 
then. (Going away to university and being given free money helped, 
even if I do have to start paying it back relatively soon and have no 
idea how I am going to do so.)

The weirdest thing, though, is that at 21 I still don't feel old 
enough to do a lot of grown-up things - but I have friends who are 
looking at buying houses, getting married, having kids... I guess 
that's our generation rebelling against rebellion. A t-shirt I once 
saw:

"Our parents' generation rebelled with sex and drugs. Our generation 
rebelled with sobriety and chastity. Somehow I think we got cheated."

~ Martha, off to Edinburgh tomorrow! Yay!