<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Hey - no apologies needed - I was trolling Ideas Futures the other day if you remember that one.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Supplements. Yikes. I am guessing my multivitamin doesn't count as one. I've had success with glucosamine for joint pain, but nothing overwhelming. If I had to choose, I would have to go with one glass of red wine a day.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>]3<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 24, 2005, at 10:03 PM, Al Brooks wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>I started this thread, apologies for that. To atone here's an entirely different thread: if you were to ingest only one supplement, what would it be? I might choose saw palmetto, or milk thistle, extracts.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Brett Paatsch <<A href="mailto:bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au">bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Emlyn wrote:<BR><BR>> FWIW, I haven't been overly bugged by all this twentycen partisan<BR>> political crapola, because I'm using gmail. It's inherently threaded,<BR>> so the tech threads have a 2 or 3 next to them (number of posts) while<BR>> the political ones have numbers that are 50+ sometimes, but the<BR>> threading keeps it contained; I see them as equal weighted, rather<BR>> than being swamped by the political stuff.<BR><BR>When you say its "inherently threaded" I don't follow. How are<BR>incoming posts from say the Exi-chat list "inherently threaded" so that<BR>you can read just the tech stuff if you want and avoid the political<BR>stuff if you don't?<BR><BR>As you know Emlyn, I have an IT degree, but I *still* forget or don't<BR>keep track of all the features of all the bits of software. Most of what<BR>I hear I have to discount as salesy blah blah ! from people who haven't<BR>got much of a clue themselves. At least until the time I get irked enough<BR>by some limitation to formulate a plan to learn and listen to some of<BR>them asking what I want to know, not what they want to tell me. There<BR>isn't time to check everything. But if you, who likes this stuff are getting<BR>value from it, its probably pretty damn good (at least for what your<BR>doing with it ;-).<BR><BR>> And I get practically no junk mail, and it's extremely reliable, and<BR>> the ads are ignorable or actually relevant (the same as with a google<BR>> search, small print on the right side of the screen), and the<BR>> interface is excellent, and the capacity now grows continuously<BR>> (pushing 2.5gb last time I looked), and it's free. If anyone wants an<BR>> invite, just ask :-)<BR><BR>Thats an invite to gmail, again, or an invite to something else? I took<BR>your gmail invite and I think I lost my gmail account, or perhaps didn't,<BR>becau! se I wasn't ready, it wasn't important enough to me, to take the<BR>time to make the change.<BR><BR>I reckon a lot of Exi-chat posters are like me. Smart but lazy. Looking<BR>for the easy way. Budgetting time, in a way, like most people budget<BR>money, because time, is also precious, and the serious thinking we like<BR>to do, but we don't like to waste it on trivial administrative stuff.<BR><BR>Funny thing is one persons trivial administrative stuff is anothers living<BR>and passion.<BR><BR>Brett Paatsch<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A><BR>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>__________________________________________________<BR>Do You Yahoo!?<BR>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <BR><A href="http://mail.yahoo.com">http://mail.yahoo.com</A></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat</A></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>