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How to Comment on Google Buzz Posts by Email
Then hast thou joined the ARPANET?
Oh come to me, my bankrupt boy!
Quick, call the NIC! Send RFCs!
He chortled in his joy.
These verses are themselves part of RFC 527, ARPAWOCKY. An RFC is a Request for Comments, of course. The first RFCs, in the late 1960s and early 70s, were indeed written for discussion, a bit like blog or Buzz posts perhaps.
Speaking of Buzz posts' longing for comments, do send the comments; send them by email, with a chuckle or a snort:
›› Reading a Buzz post in your email program on the desktop or phone and want to comment? Here's how to submit comments to Google Buzz via email.
| Elephant - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card
 Knitter of clouds is its name: Indra, god of storm and rain, on its back, Abhramatanga reaches down into the underworld with the trunk, sucks up the water and sprays it into the sky to form clouds.
Indra's elephant Abhramatanga is Indian, of course, and totally white:
›› Send an email with all the beauty, intelligence and elegance of an elephant. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
| Know and Use the Basic Smileys
"The smile insurance companies," it says on the back, "WORCESTER MUTUAL, GUARANTEE MUTUAL, STATE MUTUAL OF AMERICA"
A plain pin of metal obscures the slogan a bit. The words are easy enough to make out, though, printed in black on the sunny, yellow round background. You know what's on the other side of the button: Harvey Ball's original smiley face from 1963.
In a plain text email, you don't have pins and buttons, of course, — or yellow —, but you can have a smiley face, two eyes and mouth and even a nose maybe:
›› Smile, frown, and wink. Here's how to share your emotions in your emails with smileys or emoticons.
| How to Hide Your Followers and Who You Follow in Google Buzz
Take bottle, for example, or fatidus: we say "fade" and something like "bɔːd´l". 'T' becomes 'd', and consonants in general tend to weaken or even disappear.
Now, to make sure your friendships don't fade and business contacts don't dwindle, let's have your Gmail contact list disappear instead from Google Buzz:
›› Don't want to reveal your key Gmail contacts to everybody in Google Buzz? Here's how to hide your list of followers and followed.
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