Date:         Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:41:11 EDT
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Subject:      K.I.S.S. on the List
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No this is not about the musical group :) (the sound of a hundred delete keys
being hit at once!)

A short word of advice about list posts.  One of my teachers in High School
first introduced me to the K.I.S.S. principal and it has changed my life.  I
interpret this is in two ways:
1. Keep It Short and Sweet
2. Keep It Simple, Stupid! (stupid is referring to yourself).

Short and Sweet is the best way to post on this list or to really speak in
general.  People tend to be overwhelmed when someone posts a really long post
with 50 questions in it and alot of times they don't even read it just skim
it and then (since it has so many questions that they don't know where to
begin) they wind up never answering it.  So if you want your questions
answered and your posts read, please keep it to a couple of questions at a
time and think before you post.  You will find you get more readers and less
deleters.

Simple, Stupid is the way to respond to a person's post who asks a question.
Any idiot can take something simple and make it complicated and confusing but
it takes a wise person to take the complicated and make it simple.  When you
post an answer keep it simple and to the point.  Ask yourself, if this person
has no mechanical background at all will they understand what I am trying to
say?

I have to quit now before I break my own rules.  This is just a Friday Food
For Thought post and is in no way aimed at anyone.

Happy Fried-Egg!
Ken Wilford
http://www.vanagain.com
John 3:16
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