jc, good point you bring up about us not being able to edit what we say in face to face dialogue. that's true. i just think that maybe having more time to edit would be nice. 10 minutes doesn't seem long enough. good idea about writing in text editor, then copying and pasting. my problem is sometimes i'll post something, then 20-30 minutes later think i could have said it better and wanna go in and change my wording. if others have already responded, i can just made another reply to say, "I meant to say," or whatever. I've read that body language is like 80% of what people take away from a conversation. we don't have that here. we can just add smiley faces and things like that to try to get that across. so i feel like i have to REALLY think hard before i hit that "post reply" button. anyway, thanks for your suggestions. i still would like to have more time for editing though.