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WO'N, Thanks. And here you go, for the benefit of others:    ... in my own pathetic wry way, I try. btw, your PM isn't working??!!
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Thanks for the link, Jackie. When posting questions, I usually check the archives about half the time. I'd better make it all the time from now on. After rereading the old messages, I'm surprised at how few of the current regulars are listed there.
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When posting questions, I usually check the archives about half the time. I'd better make it all the time from now on.Not to worry, Sweetie. It's often interesting to see what newer people have to say. But this particular one struck a chord, in that at the time, we lamented loudly over how that thread was going on, and on, and on. Thinking of some threads since then, I got quite a laugh, remembering our lamentations! Chee, we didn't know we had it so good!
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When I first joined the board, over a period of a few weeks I trawled back through the whole of the archive (mind, it twarnt so big then!) and I remembered this thread, Jackie. But my searches drew a blank - think I searched only on 'begs' +the question. Thanks for disinterring it for disinterested parties
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I think that the "Yart" concept stinks. If some newcomer wants to post about something that was discussed six months ago, I don't think they ought to have to go way back and read all the old crap. The oldtimers can simply ignore it. There are not enough new posts as is, why discourage any of the newcomers? I still resent bitterly being told to look up "ayleurs" and spending two hours on it, and it sure as hell was not worth it.
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Dr. Bill, I think a YART it is as "stinky" as the herein emoticons constricting our verbal sensibilities into certain boundries. It is useless without a link pointing out the *issue... almost like copying a whole post to respond the same way to a different question . Like mav, I did spend my first few weeks here digging into the complete (much shorter) history of the people and posts available... because I believed pesonalities were valuable enough (I was correct IMHO) to take the time to *attempt to taste. A YART is just one of the (limited) flavors that life offers in this vein. I remember asking IP to dig deeper into the history of posts... not to criticize (like I have any propensity for that ) but to open to him what I thought at the time was a necessary insight into the people he was "conversing" with... YARTing may be the "call" but not the intent...(for me, that is). It certainly helps when Pooh-bahs, who clearly know, lend a hand... invisible or not.
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>I think that the "Yart" concept stinks.
and that, itself, is a yart, bill. and I hate this feeling that I need to defend my coinage -- but the concept is (of course) a two-edged sword. it can be used (per jackie) to inform that something interesting or amusing exists, or it can be used in exasperation. i'm sure it has been used both ways. [shrugs]
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scathing, even scatalogical, terms...Geez, Max, wha'd I miss?!
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Max demands : Lighten up guys! I've already had my say on this sore point, so I'll be brief. Yart related ribbing is fine for regulars (trying to avoid being scatological), but many a fresh 'maverick' has not returned due to the 'light-hearted' derision achieved through innocently asking a question - this is undeniable. Anyway, here's another thread about 'begging the question' for Brandon: http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=13000
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