Maiden speech from an old man

[Kay C Lan]

I'm with Jacque on this one, i just don't have the bandwidth; neither
mental or telecom.

On a news report last night they said that 50% of the world's
population have never made or received a phone call. Personally I
don't believe that but I can make up a statistic that confirms that
most people on the Internet think that everyone else on the Internet
has the same connection speed or better than they themselves have. I
spend a lot of money paying for 'hi-speed' Internet in hotel rooms
only to discover it doesn't even peak at the old 56K dial up speed.
Even in 1st world countries, in big cities, I spend too much time with
one leg in the shower, the other on the toilet seat, laptop raised
over the head trying to coax the connection up from b/s to Kb/s;-(

Very occasionally I wish I could post a photo (screenshot rather than
Ketchup bottles) to this List, but the downside of this is bandwidth.
I'll admit the LiverCode forum is very good in this regard, very few
photos and I haven't seen anyone with animated GIFs for their photo,
but still a Forum needs more bandwidth to run than an email client.
One forum I visit with many photos (mainly of PCBs, circuit diagrams,
machines, control panels, or photos of scribbles on napkins) I
regularly just give up as they take too long. Yes, Gmail does slow
when you're down to 5KB/s, but it's bearable. If I'm on the road I'll
specifically defer my List reading to times when I know that I'll have
slow Internet or no Internet; like sitting hours in a plane. I've just
so many other things to do with my time.

As for taxonomy, as with email Subject headings, they are other
people's taxonomy, not mine; which is why I specifically registered
this List with a Gmail account. I have about 20 Labels set up and
filters that automatically attach one or more Labels to incoming
emails. One such label is Arduino. Now I can search the LC Forum for
Arduino and I note Hermann that you replied to a post "Arduino
Project" which resided in "Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced
Developers", one post included a reference to another post about
Arduino titled "Bluetooth" which resided in "Platform Specific" < "iOS
Development". Who would have thought that Arduino posts would have
been categorised under either of those. So yes, I can search Arduino,
but if I were to search on all the topics I'm interested in it would
take me forever to go through that list. In Gmail, any post with any
subject, if it contains the word "Arduino" anywhere in the content it
will end up with an Arduino Label and I'll immediately see that when I
open Gmail and it will be the first post I read. All the other topics
I'm interested in are instantaneously Labelled. I can count on one
hand how many posts per day do not end up with a Label; which I'll
read last and  manually Label; typically OT. Thanks to all those who
put [OT] in the subject so they are automatically Labeled and will be
read second to last.

I assume someone will tell me how to 'tag' forum posts.

I like the way Gmail compress previously quoted text into a small
ellipsis button; very little wasted screen space, maintains continuity
of the thread very nicely and allows quick access if you need to
refer. I assume there is some way for me in the forums to turn off all
that stuff about when people joined, how many posts, where they live,
etc, etc.

If I worked in one office, and always had broadband I guess I'd be
able to figure out how to set up the forum to meet my idiosyncratic
ways, but with so little spare time, and too much thinband to deal
with, and not being prepared to search on every topic I'm interested
in, this List is the fastest option I've got.

Hermann, welcome to the List and I hope you find an advantage in both.

Long live the List