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Actually, I think you can set it at any number you like. I've got it set to 20, which seemed a reasonable compromise between the number of times I have to go to a new page and the length of time I have to wait for a page to download.
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Oh, WOW! THANKS, BINGLEY!!!!!
I had forgotten all about this option! Guess what?
I also changed my font to Times New Roman, and increased the size by one: now I have GREAT "read-ability"; even
the rn's are noticeably separated. (I increased the font size, because with 20 posts per page, it looked pretty darn small at the default setting.)
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OK, I've read the whole thread and being now aware that some people use threaded mode, I'm coming back to the
beginning to reply!
Most important point. You can't legislate. Mav started off suggesting we hold jokes and wordplay out of Q&A. They ended up in this thread. Personally I think that's the right way to go. If I had to sit at work all day doing the 'serious stuff' and not having a joke along the way, I'd resign or top myself. (I might anyway, but that's another issue...)
Secondly, I haven't posted in two-three weeks or whatever it is because I haven't had time. There will be times in everyone's life when they can't keep up. This happens in real life too. You're busy at work, or away on a trip and life in your group of friends goes on without you. You rejoin the group and you hope you still fit in, but you can never ever catchup on every single little thing that happened while you were out of the loop.
The trouble with the net is that all those little things are recorded, so you can catch up. Worse than that, you feel that you should! And then you end up so busy catching up that you have no time to contribute.
I've been thinking about this in the time I haven't been posting. It got to a point when I couldn't face going back on the board because I knew how much reading I'd have to do.
Now I've decided that I'll just never catch up on those weeks and it doesn't matter. I'll have to pick and choose, not read everything. Sometimes I won't understand what's going on or get a cross-reference. Guess what? That happens to me all the time in real life too!
What is the point of all this long-winded drivel?
The Board isn't perfect. Neither is real life. The difference may lie a lot in our expectations.
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Oh, Bridget - thank you so much for these words of wisdom. I was coming to that conclusion, slowly and painfully, that when I have been away from the board for four or five days - which happens more often than not - I just have to " - take the Cash and let the Credit go / Nor heed the rumble of a distant drum."
My biggest problem is remembering where I have posted, so that I can check on the responses.
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I think you can change your profile to get e-mailed all responses. Of course, that might leave you with a crowded inbox... (Which smoker said: "There's no such thing as a free lung?")
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words of wisdomBridget, your reason is impeccable, and I want to marry you. Do you know how to cook liver??  Rhub, I find the best way to check my own previous posts is via my profile - I click on FishonaBike then show all user's postsThis shows my posts in descending date order, which is spot on.
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I loathe liver, am mostly vegetarian, but should warn you I eat fish!
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Liver is a very good thing to FEED to fish, and they don't require that one cook it first.
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Liver is a very good thing to FEED to fish, and they don't require that one cook it first.Indeed, Father. But clearly I should start getting suspicious if Bridget offers me any. Especially if she's licking her lips as she does so.  Bridget, I retract my proposal - one fishweib with a fish-knife is quite enough! 
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I retract my proposal
O sole mio...
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