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yes. the trick here always is to post in such a fashion that most folks will be gruntled.
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What I did was cut-and-paste the link
Hey. At least you truncated it after the post number.
The Search function about has to return threaded if you are to find the post you're looking for for the reasons I outlined above. Imagine trying to figure out which of the 99 posts it is that has the string you were looking for.
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Apology accepted; thank you. One's preference does, indeed, depend upon what is most important to one. And yes, wofa [blowing kiss e], you can change the mode: not only with the little button at the top right, but in the actual address. It will say either showthreaded or showflat; if you delete either threaded or flat and substitute the other, the mode will change when you hit Go or Enter. This can come in handy when posting ref.'s.
It takes a while to learn things around here. It was probably a year before I even knew there was an alternate to flat mode, and I think that just shows my ignorance of computers. But something that shows my inherent laziness is the fact it was probably a year after that, that I realized to my horror that there is a way that people can tell who has responded to their posts. (By that time, I had the skill to research it--I just didn't bother.) I learned that some people watch especially for this, and was mortified that I had unintentionally misled people by simply clicking Reply to the most recent post and adding mine, even though what I had to say might have related to some other one in the thread. But I am still at a loss as to how to get around that if I just want to put in my 2 cents and am not responding to ANY particular post. And I confess to Replying to my own posts as often as possible, just to avoid misleading again.
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if I just want to put in my 2 cents and am not responding to ANY particular post
I personally get around this by responding to the original post, in that case. However that might end up looking rather odd in threaded mode. I've never checked.
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Ungghhh....I'm still not sure about flat and threaded. The way I see posts (I THINK this is flat but please kerrect me if I'm wrong), they all show up on a page that I scroll down through - each post, along with who posted it. When I do a search and the results are returned, they show up in a long list of posts, with the relevant post in full at the top and the rest just indicated by their headers. Is that threaded? I wish I understood.... 
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I wish I understood
You got it!
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Whoa! Is this getting technical or what?
I use flat mode almost alla th'time. I go to threaded mode when I want to see who responded with which and to whom.
There's no "best".
- Pfranz
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There's no "best".
I'm sure the *concept is older than the word.
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There's no "best".
There certainly isn't. But between the two, there could be a "better."
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there could be a "better."
But which is better may vary with circumstances. If you're wearing a pair of dirty, oily, work boots you probably won't be in the running for the position of vice-president of Bank of America, but if you're wearing a $500 pair of Guccis you're not going to get that job on the offshore oil rig.
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