two things:
first. one of the ways i anneal wire is to throw a coil of
romex any
gauge into a fire in the fireplace late in the evening when
the embers
are glowing brightly and hot. i let the heat burn the
insulation off
(air pollution, i know but look at a truck's exhaust stack
sometime).

Hate to tell you this, but the emissions from that coil of
burning plastic is MUCH worse than any truck exhaust (truck
exhaust, by the way, in general is less toxic (polluting) than
auto exhaust); you really wouldn't like to see the list ofr
carcinogenic, tetragenic, and mutagenic chemicals that are
emitted by burning plastic. Add this to the fact that you are
doing it inside the house(!!!) and you are courting trouble for
you and you family. I don't care HOW well your fireplace draws.

snip

the other thing: please put the reply BEFORE the copied thread.
most of
the time i know about the thread and all of the posts and don't
need to
read each again. i would like to just get to the message and
skip all
the extra stuff.

If this list existed for you and you alone, that would be fine, I
suppose.

However, it is VERY long-standing e-mail etiquette to put the
response at the END of a thread (or at various points in the
middle, when responding to different portions of a thread, as I
am doing here, but still AFTER the part being responded to!).
Not everyone has an eidetic memory such as you seem to have; this
allows people to refresh their memories about a thread. It also
allows folks who may be coming into a thread late to easily
discover what it's all about.

The standard request that we all use selective snipping of
incoming messages (as done here) applies; we do not need to read
ALL of every old message.

So, to be polite, responses should follow the portion of the
message being responded to. Otherwise in a technical, semantic
sense, they're not "responses," are they?

Get a wheel mouse if you don't like to move the mouse in order to
scroll down.

(Exceptions can be made for short, one-line responses, to short,
one-line queries where everything resides on one screen.)

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL -- Bonsai List
manager

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