Good news, indeed! As much as I love the MC, it has been a bit of a nuicance to have to remember all of the HTML stuff in order to have a decently formatted post - especially for a mind which seems to want to spend most of it's time in the 19th Century.

So glad am I to be rid of this limitation, I'm not even going to bother with all of those little "codies" in this post! Bwaahahahahaha!!!

Having been known to skulk about other message boards, since music is my greatest, but not only passion, we have been getting spoiled rotten by all of the nifty features now commonly available on many of them. These include the ability to preview posts, cut-and-paste URL links directly from my "Bookmarks" (Netscape) and the biggie, to include attached files. One of my favorite boards for technical bells and whistles is called "Gunboards":

http://www.gunboards.com/forums/UltraBoard.cgi

where you may find several of my postings under the same nickname... if you happen to be into this sort of thing, as I understand not a lot of "Folkies" are. One feature I could live without are "Emoticons", or those silly little "smiley-faces", some of which are firing teenie little machine-guns; Oh, spare us!! Of course for Kendall we might have to have one playing a weeeeenie little banjo... Here I am able to scan and post a target I just shot full of holes at the rifle range and share with fellow enthusiasts how a particular hand-load is performing, or a pic of a shell jammed up in my piece so that some "expert" can advise as to how to keep that from happening during a match. It's really handy!

Ironically, just about the same time this thread got started, I was grumbling in another thread (".30-06 On The Wall") how nice it would be if we could echange files via this forum, to include MIDI (without having to mess with that text conversion program, which is better than nothing but a bit awkward to use, I find), *.WAV, and graphics. I would love to share scannings of some of my 19th Century Americana collection, or compositions I'm working on, or pictures of instruments, etc..

Pene has been great about accepting E-mail attachments to put up on the "Family Album" pages, but this must get a little time-consuming, and technology is obviously available to automate that function and save time at both ends.

So much for my $0.02 worth - you must be getting tired of reading without a paragraph break if you're still aboard, here! {8^{D~ So like the man sez; "Put more water in the jug; There's Better Times A-Comin'!!!" Muchos Gracias, Amigos!