With being a newcomer to this Group, maybe I shouldn't touch this one, but when Bill said, "thoughts, anyone?" I figured "anyone" was me, too! (VBG) Nobody likes, needs or wants "junk E-mail!" Like a few others in our Group, I am one of the minority who has no access to a University internet. I live in the Boonies and have had no local node to any of the Services for 5 years. Therefore, I pay 14 cents a minute to download mail. Since joining this elite Group of Technicians, my E-mail has tripled. With being a member of Genie, I cannot always access their 9600 number and am forced to use their 2400 number, which ofcourse, makes things slow. So to download stuff that is not interesting, is a waste of time and money to me. On one-liners to an individual, they should be sent privately and not to the Group. I'm guility of this as of yesterday. One of my best buddies is a Technician at BYU and rather than type out the long heading of the internet code, I wrote him one or two one-liners, meant only for him. This won't happen again. I'll take the time to write him personally if I have a comment about something from our Group, meant only for him. So I feel Bill has made a good point in his comment. He, like me, uses a Service not connected to a University for free E-mail. So tidbits of interest or Questions and Answers of interest to the Group should be what we download, not stuff that is hard or unteresting to read. I must admit that in the week or so I've been a member, I've found only about 1/3 to 1/2 of the stuff posted is interesting! I've been a Technician for 30 years, only about 10 of those years, full-time. So I'm still learning. And technical stuff and/or better ways to use the SAT are the things I find most interesting and welcome to read. Gordo
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