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[quote author=Oldgator73]We could start a new topic and call it Typing 101.[/quote]

Best to split the off-topic messages off into their own topic, which I've done here.
 
xrated said:
We could!  In fact, you could start it and hopefully it would be ready to ready by this time next week!  ;D




Sorry man, you left the door wide open on that one!  8)
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I know! Many of posts don't make since the thread is locked before I can finish typing.
 
Oldgator73 said:
I know! Many of posts don't make since the thread is locked before I can finish typing.
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That's because some people say things that other people don't like... 8)

( I hauled ass typing this.. ;D )
 
[quote author=Oldgator73]Many of posts don't make since the thread is locked before I can finish typing.[/quote]

Many  ???  We lock relatively few topics here. Oh, and we don't have threads; Haven't for the last 13 years.
 
[quote author=SeilerBird]You do have threads[/quote]

Nope. When you reply, you're replying to a topic, not to an individual message, which is a fundamental of threads.
 
They made me take a typing class in 8th grade, I hated it. I remember thinking "this is dumb. What would I ever need this skill for?"  OK, well  I have eaten those words a thousand times over.  In my previous profession I did thousands of type written investigations, and now with the internet and RV forums?? 

Yep, I owe my old typing teacher a beer for making me stick to it.
 
Tom said:
Nope. When you reply, you're replying to a topic, not to an individual message, which is a fundamental of threads.
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Tom,
You're technically correct, of course, but to most folks the "topic" arrangement looks the same except for where the REPLY button is, and old habits die hard.


Oldgator73 said:
I'm so confused.
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In the software and maintenance areas, "topics" vs "threads" are quite different, but to those of us using these boards, the big difference seems to be that the REPLY button in a "topic" board is for the entire chunk of posts, thus you have to "quote" to show which post you are replying to, while in a "thread" board there is an individual reply button on each post, and there is often (usually?) a reference to the post number that was replied to in each new posting.

Actually that's not the only difference to the user, but it's the most obvious means I can see to indicate the difference. So to Tom and the other administrators the difference is considerable, while to us it's a very minor thing that we don't usually think much about. It IS confusing.
 
With non-threaded discussions, it's not always obvious who someone is responding to, unless of course they use the Quote button; This sometimes leads to a misunderstanding. With threaded discussions there's no ambiguity. We had something of an outcry when we left a threaded environment 13 years ago, but folks eventually got used to replying to a topic and learned to use the Quote button when it mattered.
 
Thanks, but I wish I had $1 for every typing lesson I've read or watched over the years  :(
 
My mother was a secretary who typed 90 wpm and she insisted I take typing in my junior year. I loved the class. Almost all women. I am still a horrible typist but I am old and retired so I have good excuses for going slow. :))
 
Several years back my clever and handsome son took a 'Home Ec' class in high school.    He dated the majority of the girls in that class.

  But the best thing about it... he learned how to be an epic bachelor.  :)
 
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