It's not on the board, Rayne. Nilly keeps it in her secret lair. Just send her an email if there's anything you want to add - b-day, anniversary, etc.

is it OK if I leave it at 25?

God, I hope so. Mine's at 20.

Sorry -- if I said Press above, I meant Beep Me.

Brenda, for me, the difference is that nothing has yet happened in my life important enough to be posted in Beep Me. My prolific nature, however, will show that I think plenty of things have happened that I just couldn't resist sharing in Natter (or Bitches, or Buffy, or whatever).

My birthday doesn't warrant announcing, though it may warrant discussion, or response to. That's why I see a difference.

But I'm also not bothered if no one notices, so it's quite clearly a personal preference thing. I don't think it's fair to assume I'm the only one that sees a difference, so I think it's fairest to give people a heads up in case they might feel shy like I do.

From a consuming point of view, I don't think they belong in Beep Me, but that merely makes it incumbent upon me to skim them. Which is no real deal. It may, at first, also increase the number of posts that need to be deleted as people forget where they are and respond in thread, but again, not a huge thing to work around.

Mostly, I just don't see the point. But as long as I'm not up there, it's not a problem.

Could we try setting auto-refresh to 7 minutes, perhaps? It's a minor enough change that it won't drive the Katie Ms of the world crazy (will it?)

Nope, not at all.

If y'all want the birthday announcements to change someone's going to have to tell Nilly - I don't think she reads Bureaucracy.

ita also speaks for me, in post 4583.

mine is at peoplesforum

Then it's not really relevant to any discussion of how to conserve bandwidth here, is it.

I would personally prefer if people didn't post about going away for less than a a week in Beep Me, but I can understand why prolific posters would want to do so.

A suggestion -- could the Buffista calendar turn into a monthly e-mail? That way, people who want to get it, can get it, and those who don't, don't have to see it. It's easy enough to set up a mailing list...

A suggestion -- could the Buffista calendar turn into a monthly e-mail?

Awww... I kinda like it when Nilly pops up to wish us a happy whatever. She's so cheery.

Then it's not really relevant to any discussion of how to conserve bandwidth here, is it.

I was responding to David, who addressed it specifically to me. Thanks for the update and can we move along now, since this is wasting bandwidth? I'd have put this in email, but your profile addy doesn't seem to list one. Mine does, however, so if you really have an issue about it, why not email me instead of taking up the bandwidth here?

Then it's not really relevant to any discussion of how to conserve bandwidth here, is it.

Actually, I don't see why posting habits at other boards are by definition irrelevant. Bronze posting has been brought up here too.

Now, if you want to debate each point on its own merit, that's something else. But the rest of the world can count.

I thought Deb was talking about a thread here, too, like a treehouse on Buffista Island. But this is the only community I can keep up with so I forget other people are more sociable.