--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARRY! Many, many happy returns.
Just as a heads-up, the Web Viewer for Fairfield Life at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ seems to have gone all wonky in celebration of my birthday. :-) What seems to be happening is that the algorithm that allows it to repost past conversation when replying to a post has lost its mind, and now stops after "- In" and leaving nothing following that. All I'm seeing in such posts is whatever is "top posted" in reply, BEFORE any previous comments. I've checked, and it's happening on other Yahoo groups as well, not just on FFL alone, so get over any "We're so important that someone must be persecuting us" paranoid fantasies you might have been imagining, and maybe just adapt to the reality of Now until the Incredibly Bad Programmers at Yahoo get their acts together and fix it. That is, if you have something you'd like others to see (at least those who use the Web Viewer to read FFL, anyway), it might be a good idea to do "top posting" only for a while. In other words, don't count on either previous comments in the thread showing up in your Reply, or any comments you feel the need to intersperse between them, in a feverish desire to establish dominance, craft the Perfect Putdown, or just be a wise-ass. ( Then again, for all I know this may only be happen- ing on Yahoo's Euro servers and your Web Viewers are working fine...if so, ignore this suggestion as Just Another Lie from the Evil Troika Of Evil. :-) The way I see things, there is an "up side" to every- thing, so the "up side" of this situation is that the All-Powerful Laws Of Nature have gotten good and fed up with all of the obsessing on the past and what was said in the past here on Fairfield Life, and are *forcing* us to live in the present. This is to give those who are never likely to ever achieve this "living in the present" state of attention on their own a "Taste Of Nowtopia" for the holidays. Think of it as an opportunity. Instead of being stuck in reactive mode and only being able to say stuff in response to what someone else said, until Yahoo (or the All Powerful Laws Of Nature) fix things, you now have the opportunity to think of something of your OWN to say. I know that this might be scary for some here, but give it a try...you might like it.
