Unfortunately my experience is with forums, but not Limewire.

I try to give help where I can.
My comment was taken as criticism of the posting technique of a respected member, and certainly this is understandable, and I apologize.
I find such hints are usually of benefits to others, who do not know them.


I have learned that most newbies will find the answer to their first few questions in recent posts, if they only explore a little. Many, like myself, will search, find the answer to querries, and leave, without ever posting.
These brave souls who do their own homework, are often invisible to the steadfast contributors.
On the other hand, if only 10% of the visitors are the lazy ones who are not willing to expend any effort, but expect others to do their homework, these will be a great burden to the experienced contributors.

Let me give thanks for those that this board has helped, but who remain invisible.

If I had broadband, I would spend a few hours exploring this board, cover many threads, get to know the personality of at least a few contributors, find the answer to at least five of my questions, then possibly register my ID. I’m not looking for sympathy, as it is my choice to use dialup. I do have one choice for broadband (direcwa*), and it is my choice to refuse to put up with overpriced, inferior service and rely on dialup.
I am no longer a regular contributing member of any forum, but find they are indispensable for knowledge sharing.
Please excuse my ignorance, which I will blame on the woes of dialup, or a lack of time, or both. Certainly it is not my on inadequacies, for I too have a brain the size of a planet (well, the size of Pluto, at least).

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So, I come to class without proper preparation, but will present some ideas regardless.

Have you considered a FAQ list?
I don’t mean forum usage FAQs (as that is present). I mean newbie Limewire FAQs.
I’m so new, I can’t even suggest a list of all the (seemingly stupid) questions that are asked on a regular basis, but I’m sure others could.
At a minimum, I would think a list of “The top ten most asked questions” would be easy to list, easy to answer, and time saving for all involved.

Has this been considered by the moderators?

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Some of you may be wondering why this fool with dialup is interested in Limewire (on a competing file sharing system it took me over 24 hours to download one LP/CD).
My daughter has virtually no ‘puter savvy, but is fortunately enough to have broadband and an interest in tunes. I am outfitting her with a peripheral hard drive, CD/DVD burner, and other tools to add to our mutual Library. I expect Limewire to be one of those tools.
I have 75 gigs of MP3s, but 99% of it is straight from hard copy, original CD or vinyl. I now need to fill in many gaps, and find file sharing to be the logical avenue.

I have only been ripping and burning for about 9 months, which is when I bought my first MP3 (Zen touch 40G).

I am slowly catching on to this MP3 tagging business, but am woefully inept. I am using WMP10, (and the Creative, of course). I find most MP3 users I am in contact with, simply dump files of tunes from one container to another, and I am trying to build a well organized Library.

When I was making my own 8 tracks, I had all 200 vinyls listed on individual 3x5 cards with titles and play length noted, so I could record with no crossover during a track. When cassette came along, I thought I was in heaven.
With digital, I am truly in my own little music heaven.