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>more postings than I'll ever catch up with!
I have a trick to deal with this problem.
(i) In your profile, subscribe to the daily summaries of Misc, Q&A and W&F and any other bits you read also set it up to e-mail you any replies to your postings.
(ii) Set up your e-mail programme (eg Outlook) to put all messages from AWAD in its own directory, so as not to clog up your mailbox.
(iii) If you pay for your phone calls, open up your e-mail summaries, when they arrive, minimise all the ones you want to read, then disconnect. Then read them "off line". This is very useful for threads that end up so far down the list that you can never find them. It can be a bit hard to follow but its not so bad.
(iii) If you want to reply to anything, check it out on-line before you do, there may be lots more things since the e-mail summary was sent, especially from people in a different time zone. Again, once you have opened all the relevant pages, you can go off line to read them.
(iv) If you want to write a long reply and are paying for calls. Jeff suggested a long time ago that you write it in your word processing programme and paste it in. This may avoid the pleasures of the enigma machine (spellchecker) but you can't win everything.
(v) If you go away for a long time, decide if you want to unsubscribe to the e-mail summaries and miss things or tay subscribed and face your e-mail when you come back.
Any other tips from anyone?
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Just to note that, when you are on the Main Index, or the
opening page of a category, the number beside the "New" note doesn't mean that there actually are that many that you haven't read. For ex., just now when I clicked on
Q&A, it showed the New note beside the number 40 in this
thread, but there was only one I had not seen.
I think confusion over this may have been cause for panic.
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tipsThanks, both. That should definitely keep the addiction fed within manageable bounds! And shame! -Brazil indeed (YCLIU). Xara's another southern gal - and welcome from me too 
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anna no i'm american. er, united statesian, not to be confused with other 'american' countries like brazil or canada...
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united statesianStates of mind? I loved your company website, by the way - as apparently not everyone has yet LIU I here reproduce a good handy phrase: Dealing directly with over three million customers annually has given us the opportunity to learn first hand what you want in a timepiece
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All right, already. Xara could be a Brazilian studying or working in North Carolina! (and I did LIU, just didn't click on the web page). I asked because xara is a Brazilian Portuguese word of address to someone who has the same name as one doing the addressing (which is pretty common in a country full of Josés and Marias). Whence comes your name, xara? (or can I LIU on your web page  )
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ok, first things first.
what is LIU?
as for the etymologies of xara:
when i was in highschool i played d&d with friends. when i needed a name for a new character i would simply roll dice and use what i got. (if it was pronouncable.) doing that i got xar. to make it feminine, i added the 'a' to the end. later i found out from a greek friend that it meant happiness in greek, which i've never verified myself, so i only assume this is correct. hence xara
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Wow, someone has seen my webpage!  i don't know for sure that anyone who isn't family has ever looked at it before. i feel prominent !
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ok, first things first.
what is LIU?
xara, xara, xara.
I could tell you the answer, but you'll learn more if you Look It Up for yourself.
You'll find yourself slipping into the same lingo soon enough.
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Just doing a bit of post-vacation post catch-up... Welcome xara. It's always nice to see (read) new people on board. It's interesting to note that you do consider other countries as American. Generally, I have found United Statsians (I love that name) have adopted 'American' as their own and that they do not readily share it with others. Mind you, any Canadian will staunchly defend his being 'not an American' (no insult intended) so I guess the title is yours . It seems odd because I do not see the same thing when talking to Europeans.
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