Hello All,

I must be getting old: in order to do my dishes, I had to inatall two bright lights over my kichen sink and wear my reading glasses so I can even see the dishes in detail...

-- Sean

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Sean,

Between this and your comment in a later post about the year having flown past, I can confirm you are OLD.

Justin

Sean Dennis wrote to All <=-

Hello All,

I must be getting old: in order to do my dishes, I had to
inatall two bright lights over my kichen sink and wear my
reading glasses so I can even see the dishes in detail...

-- Sean

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Hello Justin,

Monday July 24 2023 08:17, you wrote to All:

Between this and your comment in a later post about the year having
flown past, I can confirm you are OLD.

I am. I'll be 51 in August.

Since you're new in these parts, top posting is considered a social faux pas; bottom posting is the norm.

Thank Microsoft for starting the top posting crap.

Nice to see you posting...please introduce yourself. <G>

-- Sean

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Re: Getting old
By: Sean Dennis to Justin Farris on Mon Jul 24 2023 09:25 am

Since you're new in these parts, top posting is considered a social faux pas; bottom posting is the norm.

Thank Microsoft for starting the top posting crap.

Nice to see you posting...please introduce yourself. <G>

what is top posting exactly? im also new
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Hello Candy,

Monday July 24 2023 14:31, you wrote to me:

what is top posting exactly? im also new

Top posting is putting your reply above the quoted part of a reply you're writing. It's considered annoying because it doesn't follow the natural flow of how we process information. You got it right. :)

Justin is a local friend of mine who discovered I have a BBS and is hanging out here in Micronet.

Also, welcome to Micronet! We're glad to have you here.

-- Sean

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Re: Getting old
By: Sean Dennis to Candy Cane on Mon Jul 24 2023 04:27 pm

Hello Candy,

Monday July 24 2023 14:31, you wrote to me:

what is top posting exactly? im also new

Top posting is putting your reply above the quoted part of a reply you're writing. It's considered annoying because it doesn't follow the natural flow of how we process information. You got it right. :)

Justin is a local friend of mine who discovered I have a BBS and is hanging out here in Micronet.

Also, welcome to Micronet! We're glad to have you here.

-- Sean

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alright, and ty!
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Sean Dennis wrote to Justin Farris <=-

Hello Justin,

Monday July 24 2023 08:17, you wrote to All:

Between this and your comment in a later post about the year having
flown past, I can confirm you are OLD.

I am. I'll be 51 in August.

Since you're new in these parts, top posting is considered
a social faux pas; bottom posting is the norm.

Thank Microsoft for starting the top posting crap.

Nice to see you posting...please introduce yourself. <G>

-- Sean

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Sean,

Thank you for the reminder on the etiquette. I am going to blame the decades that have past since last interacting on a BBS. :)

This one should be better.

Justin

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SEAN DENNIS wrote to JUSTIN FARRIS <=-

I am. I'll be 51 in August.

You are only 51? Then I must be really old! :P

Kev

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Justin Farris wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Thank you for the reminder on the etiquette. I am going to blame the decades that have past since last interacting on a BBS. :)

I absolutely hate top posting myself. It's a pet peeve that makes me work harder to read a message than it should. LOL

-- Sean

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Hello Kevin,

Wednesday July 26 2023 08:51, you wrote to me:

You are only 51? Then I must be really old! :P

You're just crusty...

-- Sean

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On 26 Jul 23 15:39:34, Sean Dennis said the following to Kevin Nunn:

You are only 51? Then I must be really old! :P

You're just crusty...

I'm having a very hard time adjusting to being 45.

Nick

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On 25 Jul 23 10:19:00, Sean Dennis said the following to Justin Farris:

Thank you for the reminder on the etiquette. I am going to blame the decades that have past since last interacting on a BBS. :)

I absolutely hate top posting myself. It's a pet peeve that makes me work harder to read a message than it should. LOL

Nahhhhh, for me its management sending me Excel sheets with stupid colors, fonts, many tabs, arrows, placards, more colors, more unnecessary crap.

I do work with one engineer who is really cool, really smart and "gets it" and sends me Excel stuff with just two columns. Thats it.

Nick

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Hello Sean Dennis!

** On Monday 24.07.23 - 09:25, Sean Dennis wrote to Justin Farris:

Between this and your comment in a later post about the
year having flown past, I can confirm you are OLD.

I am. I'll be 51 in August.

I'm much older than that, but it's interesting that I don't
"feel" old inside. Sure.. there are some increased limitations
with the physical body (such as getting up from the floor after
squatting down to check something on a lower shelf) ..but
otherwise only the visual view of the body shape is giveaway to
changes in age.

Since you're new in these parts, top posting is considered
a social faux pas; bottom posting is the norm.

PMFJI, but I don't have a problem with either modes of posting.
Sometimes a message reply is easier to read when the content is
right at the top and one doesn't have to scroll through the old
stuff first to read the new text.

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August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I'm much older than that, but it's interesting that I don't
"feel" old inside. Sure.. there are some increased limitations
with the physical body (such as getting up from the floor after
squatting down to check something on a lower shelf) ..but
otherwise only the visual view of the body shape is giveaway to
changes in age.

Being chronically ill, having two heart attacks, a deep vein thrombosis, and two pulmonary embolisms end to accelerate things. But I -am- feeling
better.

PMFJI, but I don't have a problem with either modes of posting.
Sometimes a message reply is easier to read when the content is
right at the top and one doesn't have to scroll through the old
stuff first to read the new text.

When you've spend decades depening on email for business like I have, I've learned top posting can be annoying. A good article on why I dislike top posting:

https://www.businessemailetiquette.com/down-edit-instead-of-top-posting/

-- Sean

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Re: Getting old
By: August Abolins to Sean Dennis on Sun Aug 06 2023 08:50 pm

PMFJI, but I don't have a problem with either modes of posting.
Sometimes a message reply is easier to read when the content is
right at the top and one doesn't have to scroll through the old
stuff first to read the new text.

I don't really mind in isolation, but it's like text encoding: it gets messy if you mix multiple together. Plus, it's what people are used to.

candycane

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Re: Re: Getting old
By: Sean Dennis to August Abolins on Mon Aug 07 2023 12:27 am

When you've spend decades depening on email for business like I have, I've learned top posting can be annoying. A good article on why I dislike top posting:

https://www.businessemailetiquette.com/down-edit-instead-of-top-posting/

Wow, neat article. Didn't realize it worked for emails too, I'll keep it in mind.

candycane

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