Sometimes I will chop it up into the specific things I would like to applaud and that which I would respond to in terms of questions of clarification or whatever.

There is a danger in just pasting back into the HTML space here. Especially with Word's punctuation, some of what is typed will be a gobbly-gook of numbers and code. I've previewed and missed some of that stuff. Then I too am stuck with James' dilemma.

Can members of GL delete their entry? If not, drop an off list e-mail to Scott L, miskairal, me, Reza, maggie1270, lomelindi and an other familiar name and ask them to delete it. Maybe cc to a couple. Then, having already copied your comment and fixed it, you re-submit it.

It is not hard to do. The dicey part is that if another comment has been posted after yours has, deleting will also delete everything after it. That actually was useful one time, but I recall doing that and wiping out a comment by miskairal. I feel really badly about that and e-mailed her to apologize.

In rare cases one could copy the following comment  e-mail it to the party after you and ask them to post it after you make your changes.

In most cases though, I have caught my blunders too late. Then the advice is probably that we just have to "live with it." ;)

I applaud your interest in this James. Glad you take pride in what you write and want to present it as effectively as possible.

atb!
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