RE: [FairfieldLife] PSA [Re: Jim Flanegin is maxed out]
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of authfriend Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 8:06 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] PSA [Re: Jim Flanegin is maxed out] Of course, we could just refrain from being obsessive about it and not get all bent out of shape if somebody goes over by a few posts. 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. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.21/1010 - Release Date: 9/15/2007 7:54 PM
RE: [FairfieldLife] PSA [Re: Jim Flanegin is maxed out]
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of authfriend Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 12:05 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] PSA [Re: Jim Flanegin is maxed out] --- In HYPERLINK mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.comFairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I wrote:] Of course, we could just refrain from being obsessive about it and not get all bent out of shape if somebody goes over by a few posts. Give `em an inch and they'll take a mile. If they take a mile, *then* we can get all bent out of shape. I'd say just keep a scratch pad next to your computer and tally posts on that. Low-tech but simple. And not much more reliable than Yahoo Search. It's too easy to forget to mark the tally sheet. Reward yourself with a jelly bean every time you use the pad. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.21/1010 - Release Date: 9/15/2007 7:54 PM
RE: [FairfieldLife] PSA [Re: Jim Flanegin is maxed out]
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jim_flanegin Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 1:33 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] PSA [Re: Jim Flanegin is maxed out] If only the editor windows could be web enabled. Not that this is some huge issue, but I work on two or three notebook (mobile) PCs every day, so anything that doesn't stay with the web is cumbersome. I suppose I could save the editor pad as a file and email it to yahoo when I move PCs, then open the email, cut and paste the new total into another editor window, but I think I will just keep using Yahoo advanced search + a fudge factor of ~5 posts as I am doing now.:-) Google has online equivalents of the Word and Excel, so you could use the Word equivalent as a notepad, and access it from any computer: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/b1.html No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.21/1010 - Release Date: 9/15/2007 7:54 PM
Re: [FairfieldLife] PSA [Re: Jim Flanegin is maxed out]
TurquoiseB wrote: 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. Evolution Mail that comes with Ubuntu (and probably SUSE since they developed it) gives you a count of a selected range of emails so it is easy to get a count that way. I don't know why Thunderbird doesn't do this. As programmers you and I know it would be an easy feature to add but maybe nobody else is on a group that has a post limit. Lookout! (aka Outlook) has the feature too but who wants to run Windows for email. :D
Re: [FairfieldLife] PSA [Re: Jim Flanegin is maxed out]
Richard J. Williams wrote: Bhairitu wrote: First off you will need to put all your FFL emails in one folder which probably most folks due. Now all you have to 'due' is learn to spell! Isn't the English language terrible? I type fast and I type phonetically so it is easy to use the wrong word and a spell checker won't catch those. Though the purists will hate it we need to drop the old English spellings and write English phonetically and more people would find English easier to learn. BTW, how is your Nigerian these days? :D
Re: [FairfieldLife] PSA [Re: Jim Flanegin is maxed out]
jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 13, 2007, at 7:53 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: OK, no problem-- I'll just add that I was checking today several times, and the Yahoo advanced search indicated only 28 this afternoon.:-) Well now it indicates 34, Jim. And funnily enough, I have 39 emails of yours since early Saturday morning. I'm sure you wouldn't be deleting any on the website, of course not. So the discrepancy is interesting. Sal FYI-- I just verified that the Yahoo advanced search isn't very accurate-- I hand-counted my posts from the beginning of Sept.8th until now and the total is 39, not including this one. However, if I use the Yahoo advanced search, I get a total of 34, not including this one. So hand counts seem to be the only way to be accurate, for those not receiving emails on FFL. Or whoever keeps tallies can please send an email to Rick. In any case, see you next week.:-) I found a trick for counting using email and Thunderbird. First off you will need to put all your FFL emails in one folder which probably most folks due. Then select Mark Folder Read which I do regularly anyway because there are just a lot of topics I'm not interested in. Then you order messages by Sender and select the range for the week. Right click on those highlighted messages and select Mark as Read and the messages will be marked Unread and then total listed in the lower right hand corner of the the Thunderbird window. That's sort of a lot of work and Thunderbird should really anytime you select a group of messages also list the number selected. I'll put in a request for that feature which I can tell you as a programmer should not be hard to add.
