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Helen: Yes I accept and thank you. Points, as on "Whose line is it anyway"

Although I'm presently being singled out for expressing two different ideas in a single thread, a terrible habit I'm trying desperately to kick

Oops, should we have begun a new thread



Dale, Luv, listen. Nobody is singling you out for nothing. And nobody is singling you out for putting more than one do-hickey in a thread. A couple of us are just asking you to keep all you technical questions in one thread.

To put it another way, please don't open a new thread every time you have a new technical question. There's a lot of people here happy to try to help, as you can see. We're a friendly bunch. And you seem like a good egg.

It seems odd, even to me, that it should matter, this thing about keeping all your technical questions in one thread, and I can't give a great reason for it. Except that keeping all your technical questions in one thread is good housekeeping; and there ain't no housekeeper here. And all the saying so on Earth won't bring one. They're on strike. They disdain this place. The only clue where they've gone is a sign from management what says 'there ain't no management.'

So, since there ain't no housekeeper, and there ain't no management, since neither Anu nor nobody else is around to sweep up after us and do the dishes, well, everyone's just got to do for themselves. And since everyone's got to, it's only right and proper that all of us do.

So, as to this keeping all your technical questions in a single thread, and not multiplying them like stars in the sky or tables in an elementary school math class, here are a few thoughts:

Keeping all your technical questions in one thread is good house keeping.

Keeping all your technical questions in one thread is good citizenship

Keeping all your technical questions in one thread is neighborly

Keeping all your technical questions in one thread is good companionship

Keeping all your technical questions in one thread is nice; and

Keeping all your technical questions in one thread is just a darned good thing to do.

Thanks, kind thoughts, and sweet memories of Southern California
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