For the record, I too am a dial-up pauper. However, I don't consider smodis' post spam. Sometimes, old posts lose focus and restarting the thread brings us all back to topic. Also, a thank you by itself might be spam (except to the person being thanked) but summing up the "revelation" helps new people to the boards. I have done searches and have found answers to questions before posting (i.e. lowering the spam quotient) but I do not have the desire to go back and read a year's worth of previous posts. And as a final comment, if you are going to play the karma game on a particular bulletin board, thankyous do play a role and encourage people to take the extra time to help the new people, without whom, software becomes vaporware.
Apollo16
P.S. Cafall: I hope all will go better for you soon. You seem very uptight lately.
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