On 9 Oct 2005 13:12:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> My grandma doesn't put captions in her photo album, >> and she doesn't need captions on her photos in email. > >She doesn't need captions in the album because she will explain the >pictures, at length, every single one of them, to anyone who comes >within grabbing distance. > >> "Here's Johnny with the dog. Here is Johnny with the >> dog again. This one is Johnny on his own. Here is the >> dog. Oh look, it is Johnny with the dog again -- ... > >If your photos are so banal then only people who would recognise the >people would care about them. > >Captions are for people who won't recognise the subject of the photo. >When you send a photo of a house to Granma is she supposed to just >_know_ that it your new house, or the one across the road, or the one >that burnt down last week ?
You might try something truly innovative, like including a line in the email that says "Hi, Grandma, here's a picture of our new house." -- Al Balmer Balmer Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
