[pct-l] Steri pen water purification

[Tortoise]

I'm not familiar with Outlook as I avoid Micro$oft products when 
practical. There are good reasons why prior messages are deleted from 
replies.

I've used Thunderbird, a free open source email client from 
Mozilla.org.  With Thunderbird, I can sort my emails into threads and 
then easily see previous messages being responded to. I can delete 
individual messages and the subsequent replies stay organized.

So for me, and probably many others including all the previous messages 
in each reply is a nuisance.  One has to scan thru lots of irrelevant 
prior stuff just to find the relevant. For some who are still on dial-up 
or other slow connections, repeating all prior messages can 
significantly increase download and upload time.

So I often delete most of the prior message(s) and leave just the 
relevant.  Such deletions also make the replies more cogent.

Tortoise

<> He who finishes last, wins! <>



Josh wrote:
> Chase,
> Great points!  I hadn't even considered the temperature factor.
>
> I do want to point out one thing: I have followed this thread from the
> beginning, but other threads I kinda wait until they develop a little bit
> before reading them...you erased the end of this thread, I'm assuming to
> save space or something...but that means that anyone coming along in the
> future will have to find the original post & read from there instead of just
> finding the most recent one & being able to read the convo from beginning.
> OR...in the case of the Electrolyte thread, there are a LOT of good
> suggestions and having a summary of all of them in the most recent post
> would be quite useful...but if all the most recent post contains is the 2
> most recent paragraphs, future users/readers will be at a loss.  OR, in the
> case of the ongoing humor threads where in order to understand what is
> presently being conveyed, one must refer back to the previous comical
> statements & their rebuttals, removing all of that would make the thread
> useless to all but those who have followed it from the beginning.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but if it's just for the sake of saving space,
> would you please not truncate the messages in the future?  Please?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of Charles W. Davidson
> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 6:06 AM
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Steri pen water purification
>
>     One thing that was not mentioned in the battery discussion is the great
> advantage of a Lithium battery in cold weather and it weighs half as much.
> Where an alkaline becomes weaker and life grows shorter the colder it gets.
> Lithiums are pretty much un affected by the cold. This makes all the
> difference in the winter.  Just speculating but I expect at 0* F one lithium
> is easily worth seven alkaline as many advertisements suggest. The very
> first Lithium batteries where double voltage and required a dummy battery
> for a two battery setup. 20 years ago REI sold a Moon light that used one
> Lithium 3v C sized cell. I am glad they make them more compatible now. Some
> devices state do not use Lithium or will cause overheating. I have one gps
> that the screen will go crazy if you use Lithium. An old camera I have said
> no Lithium but it always worked just fine with them.
>        Come on April 8. I am ready to get started and put my batteries to
> use. I can hardly wait to see my first desert. mmm chocolate.
>
> chase
>
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>
> <snip>
> notice  how I cut away the rest of the RE: steri pen message that you have
> already seen 
>
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