I try to avoid posting with too much detail as it always leaves you wide open to being called patronising - as if someone has a mind reading device that can answer at just the right level, a point that was alluded to on another thread.
I have to write technical detailed emails all the time, including parts that the person I'm sending to knows, why? Because he will usually pass the email to someone to do the work and without the detail, we'd be playing email tennis to get the right job done. As in , on a forum - more than one person reads the posts here, each with a different set of understanding and experience , I have to assume a level of understanding at some point.
I've fallen into the old trap and I'll just curtail my posts of this ilk.

Let's just say I wasn't thinking clearly.  I was really thinking only in terms of what annoys people considerably on this forum.  That is to say, those spammers that spew out threads and posts in threads, mostly completely incoherent (does that make me a spammer? 8-| ).  And, then there's the spammers that just pollute you email.  I had never thought of the folks that come on to the forum and post there link as such but I guess that's exactly what they are.

I agree with you, Sartori.  It's so much more difficult to commincate in
text than in real person.  Heck, even a phone call loses a lot without
the person being present.  But, I don't think you should curtail on my
account.  And, if ever adressing me, never fear dumbing it down.  It's safest.  ;)

Not sure how to answer you question, Kiyuri.  I've used it for a very, very long time (near it's inception).  I've written code (all hacker stuff), though very, very little in html or any other web-oriented.  I am supremely careful not to attract spam or viruses (I'll be damned if I'm going to pay someone to filter out viruses after the fact that they are all over the web).  But, the few spams that I have, inadvertently (or using a junk email), attracted, all seem to be a set of random characters for the email address.  It's very frustrating because they always use some very inoccuous identity (or, "name", if you like), like "BK Survey" or some such and email systems don't seem to let you filter on the name, only the email address and, actually, I don' think they let you fliter on spam at all.  I'd just as soon that I could eliminate the spammer (as our moderators are allowed to do) so that if, somehow, I were to get an actual email from someone that counted into my spam, it wouldn't be lost in all of the spam.

Well, that was surely too much information.  But, I dug the hole and am just trying to fill it.

Once again, being the eternal optimist, I was just hoping that a great number of folks were coming to this forum because they adored Goldfrapp.  Sigh.  It seems I was wrong.

well i deffo started something here.... lol :D

I am sure I already know the answer to this but is there a way I can transfer my music library from Windows media player to IPAD.....simplest version poss please if such a thing exists. Many thanks in advance.

i think the tooth is dead when they do the root canal isnt it?  I had one done a while back and its fine, but it is a total zombie tooth

Thanks I am just a bit hesitant at downloading stuff as the last time I downloaded anything 'I' orientated to the main computer it froze the whole thing and it had to be uninstalled.

I haven't got a clue about i-pads but transferring music is really simple, just copy everything from my music if you didn't figure that out already Cervus ;)

It told me I had to install itunes (which I did...comp not crashed so far) then it searched for existing files to transfer and transferred a load of stuff (ignoring all the physical cds that were in my media folders) so I am now gradually transferring it all myself file by file. Now I can remember why my fella used to say don't touch anything apple with a barge pole (not his term but it is early and I am too polite!)