nancree wrote:
> "I know before I post this that this is a losing battle, but could we
> please, please, please learn to trim posts?" Terry Pulliam Byrd"
>
> While we're on the subject, how about dropping those tiresome "sigs"
> that have been repeated endlessly for years. [snip]

As to trimming posts, top posting, annoying or long sigs, and other
annoyances like cross posters and unlabeled OT posts:

* I have read newsgroups for many years with Outlook Express,
Agent, and now Google and in every case it has been easy to scroll or
click past all the millions of lines that I didn't feel like reading,
so long as the mouse was working properly. Some days it's the most
exercise I get all day.

* My personal experience is that the rest of the world stubbornly
refuses, over and over agin, to conform itself to my personal
preferences. Hence I have to put up with capital punishment, unjust
wars, racism and all the other isms, not to mention posters with no
sense of humor, the relentless attempts to drag down cooking/eating
standards in the name of time saving and convenience, and of course the
ego parades.

* So my conclusion is that you all should post however you want,
about whatever you want, and I'll read what I want and skip the rest.
Feel free to do the same. -aem