[the crow]

This should be very helpful to those of us cursed with dial up modems.

I do find this a bit hard to read, however. Any chance of trying a cleaner font? I use Lucida Sans a lot; a bit bolder without the frills. Thx.

[glock rocks]

This should be very helpful to those of us cursed with dial up modems.

this should be helpful to those of us with broadband!
good work John.... load speed is just like chevy horsepower - if more is better, too much is just right.

[smith288]

There is a way to create what us nerds call Cascading Style Sheet. John will install a cool way to choose a style to use. For now, he gives us a way to install them ourselves. Put the following in a text file, save it as style.css and then go to http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/edit-style click the browse button and find where you put the style.css and press upload. You will have a marginally better looking thread. Begins CSS:

.fr_title
{
font: bold 10pt verdana;
}
.fr_header, .fr_choices, .fr_page
{
font: bold 8pt verdana;
}
.fr_header
{
padding: 3px 6px;
}
.fr_normal .fr_header
{
background-color: #ddddee;
border : thin;
border-style : outset;
}
.fr_removed .fr_header
{
background-color: #eedddd;
border : thin;
border-style : outset;
}
.fr_body
{
margin: 0em 1em;
}
.fr_default
{
display: none;
}
.fr_menu
{
margin-bottom: 1em;
text-align : center;
border : thin;
border-style : outset;
background-color : #eedddd;
}
.fr_comment
{
text-decoration : none;
}
.fr_menu A:LINK
{
text-decoration : none;
font-style : italic;
color : black;
}
.fr_menu A:HOVER
{
text-decoration : none;
font-style : normal;
color : black;
}
.fr_menu A:VISITED
{
text-decoration : none;
font-style : italic;
color : black
}
.fr_page_goto
{
color: black;
}
.fr_page_here
{
text-decoration: none;
color: red;
}

[Texas Yellow Rose]

Want a cleaner font?... go to "Tools", "Options", "General" and change your default font. Works great for me.

[Silly]

I use Lucida Sans a lot; a bit bolder without the frills.

Beta -- who knew! John, this is weird, wild wacky stuff, man! What a pleasant surprise! Can't wait to see what the place looks like tomorrow...

By the way, I also like the Lucinda Sans, particularly 1983 and 1985. A classic finish with a bouquet like an Aborigine's armpit; it has a kick like a mule. Great with venison, or my famous duck and fennel omelette over a bed of scallops and Hollandaise sauce and truffles and sweetbreads.

[Brookhaven]

Let people keep the default font on their system. Different people see differently. FYI - serif fonts are supposed to be easier to read in small text, and sans-serif fonts in larger text. Look at any newspaper, the headlines are in sans-serif, and the small text is in serif.

Splitting the threads up is a gread idea. Longer ones were impossible to load, and it will eliminate the thread-II, thread-III stuff.