Re: Help! Help! Help! Help! Please !

["John M. Davies" <jmdavies@barbequesgalore.com.au>]

Or you could post the whole 300+ lines on the web somewhere and just include
the LINK at the end of each message,
That would save some bandwidth... :-)

Cheers
John M. Davies
Mitchell Spector wrote in message <3DEC199807091798@vax2.concordia.ca>...
>In article Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> writes...
>
>>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>:>Any help or suggestings would be appreciated, I would like to get this
puter
>>:>going ang given away to a handicap child for christmas.
>>
>>: This is a noble endeavor and it looks like you have a IIGS that
>>: was well loved (as witnessed by the hand held scanner).  I am
>>: certain that the box is an external hard drive, probably SCSI.
>>
>>[300-some lines snipped]
>>
>>Damn dude, is it really necessary to post 300+ lines of FAQ material into
>>every single thread like this? If I still ran my proline site and had to
>>pay long distance to download news I'd be getting rather torqued.
>
>    It is starting to get a bit excessive. I rather see something
>like that posted once _per month_ than several times in one day.
>
>    Another option, if all that must get posted more frequently,
>then why not condense all that information into a basic nutshell.
>In my own IIgs FAQ I summed up all its major features in 6 lines
>near the very beginning (it still has the same affect--enough to
>whet the reader's interest in the computer).
>
>Mitchell Spector
>spec@vax2.concordia.ca