Good suggestions Loren.

I have been known to get close to OT or OT. I'm quelling that. Also
I'm trying to trim quotes, think 2 or 3 times before posting a
response or question, and be more succinct.

It's very easy to click on "reply to all" and not think.

I have a couple of suggestions.

Re: responses. If possible, reporting back if a solution given
actually worked, would help. This is a very polite list, thus most or
all listers say "please and thanks". But once in a while, a thread
ends but there is no comment from original poster about which solution
worked. Anyone searching archives finding the thread will be left w/o
an actual answer. I'm sure I've been guilty of this.

Occasionally I see a topic with the word "report" in it. These are
really useful. I'm all about sharing info, (as witnessed by my
somewhat kludgy web sites). The reports are really useful IMHO, though
I know they can be time consuming to write. (ask me how I know --- ;^)

Just my .02 --- :^)

Neil.

Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Recently I seem to be
>  seeing many responses to serious questions that fall into that category,
>  responses that may be on topic but provide no usable information to the list
>  member needing help or information.

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> Second, and the reason I put on
>  my Nomex and posted this, if you don't have an answer to the question posed
>  don't clog the archives with you anecdotes about something that may be
>  related but doesn't help answer the original question.

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 > If you do have a
>  piece of wisdom to pass on to the list (only vaguely related to the original
>  question) then start a new post with a new subject line.  Those searching
>  the archives in the future will thank you.