On 5/26/97, Susan Kline <skline@proaxis.com> wrote: <<It takes a little while, but for unusually good posts which I wish to share with computerless friends I think it's worth it. >> The other situation in which I find the hard copy valuable is when serious reflection is required for a seriously long thread. That's I when print out several pages on 11"x14" Canary yellow, and fold out the lawn chair on the front porch. But speaking about thread's, I download with the threads sorted alphabetically. As the posts get pasted manually to my emailer (actually, a parser or "pre-amp" for you hi-fi nuts), I skim them to pick and choose. This thread caught my eye as does anything concerning what people do to adapt computers to their own needs. But I couldn't find its beginning until I actually got to reading the "Leather Dye" thread. Warren, Dan and Eddie (names changed where innocent need protecting <g>) had each tossed in their ideas on saving these discussions to a shop manual, and it was up to Susan to realise that the subject was no longer leather dye. Thanks, Susan. I bring the matter of properly titled subject up because my emailer has a field called "Thread" which simply strips the "Re:" (however spelled) off the Subjects. I assumed that everyone else's emailer does this titling automatically. Apparently not, given the variety of spellings for the given Subject, even after the "Re" prefix. I'd like to request that if you're titling these subjects manually, that you do whatever you can to insure the consistency on which continuity is based. That ranks right up there with the reply which begins with two yards of "<" (and "<<" and"<<<") and ends up with, "Great Post, Bob, my sediments exactly, Don't great minds think alike, huh?" Also (while I am it) whatever you may have thought of jptuner's blaze of methane at least he ran it through a spell-checker. Bill Ballard RPT NH Chapter "No, Please wait, you're all individuals" Brain Cohen, exasperated "Yes, we're all individuals" the throng assembled in the street below his window, in unison "I'm not..." Lone dissenter. Monty Python's "Life of Brian"
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