--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Give `em an inch and they'll take a mile. I'd say just keep a > scratch pad next to your computer and tally posts on that. > Low-tech but simple.
If a notepad and one of those pointy things that leaves marks on paper is too low-tech for you (and I understand, because over the years I've definitely come to like the keyboard better than the pen), do what we nerds do. I don't know one who doesn't keep an editor window open at all times. Just in case we need it. You might have to paste some text with weird characters or formatting indicators into it, because you want to get rid of them. Then you cut it back out and paste it into the target application as raw text. Or you might come up with a neat idea and want to jot it down. I use Editpad, which has a version you can download for free, which enables me to keep multiple pages open on the editor. One of them is called Numbers, and in it I make a mark every time I post to Fairfield Life. I Alt-Tab over to it before I post, to make sure I haven't already gone over the posting limit. I guess some could call that being obsessive. And damnit...they'd probably be right. :-) Nerds *are* obsessive. We work on these damn computer things all day, and we get compulsive sometimes about figuring out the easiest and most efficient way of doing things. This is the quickest and easiest way I've found of keeping track of the number of posts I've made to FFL. As noted recently Yahoo does not always receive and repost from its site all posts made by email; whereas other email-only subscribers see them. And vice-versa. Plus (for nerds), from a user point of view I suspect that Yahoo has an indexing cycle that's a little slow on the draw. That is, when something is posted and successfully reposted from the website, often it is half an hour or up to six hours before that post can be found using the Advanced Search feature. I think that they don't get around to *indexing* the posts in their database until some time after they insert the posts there. Occasionally they'll forget to index an entire day's posts. They're there *on* the Web reader; you can see them there. But they don't show up in response to criteria entered in the Advanced Search. Go figure. Anyway, if you care about not going over the limit, a good text editor is a great way to achieve this. And you might be surprised to find out how many great ideas you have during a day when you're only one Alt- Tab away from writing them down before they're gone.
