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--- In , " Fern " <readnwrite@f...>

wrote:

> > It just seems to take so long to sort thru the posts on the

site. I> think they could've set that up better, but I know

they need to get their> ads in to pay for all our verbosity, so that

likely contributes to the> cumbersomeness of their boards.

>

I always set read to no email and read them on the

website. This is the way I like to do it:

Go to the home page. Click on one of the emails to open it up. On

the bar above the email, on the right, click on 'message index'.

That takes you to a list with just the titles of the posts. Then on

the bar above the list on the left, click on " expand messages " . Now

you have a whole page of posts that you can scroll through without

having to click on each one. (I think you can set the number of

posts per page).

To make it easy to read this way, now do this:

At the bar on the top or bottom of the posts, click on " previous " .

That takes you to the previous page of posts. Now in the same place,

click on " last " . That brings you to the last page. Now bookmark that

page. To read on the web, you can select that bookmark from your

favorites list and it will open the most recent page of posts.

If there have been a lot of posts since you read the group last,

you may have to hit the " previous " button a few times to get back to

where you last read. This doesn't bother me, but may bother some

people. It's worth it to me not to have to click on every single

page with the big ads. And I don't like trying to follow threads.

I'd rather scroll past the ones I can see don't interest me from

their content.

Marty