You've all done very well in cleaning up after yourselves and keeping our community kitchen spotless. I was about to rant about the disgusting furry thing at the back of the fridge, at least until I discovered it was a carton of prune yogurt that I left there in September. There are a few other items though that deserve a small mention:

Moderation

No, not referring to your level of wine consumption. After all, age goes better with wine. I'm referring to the fact that every post that appears on this list must first be read and approved by our staff, which is me. I'm not out to censor anyone (and you know who you are, you bawdy wench!) but I do need to filter out those spurious and dangerous emails that purport to be from a member. Usually they say "Hey check this out!" and include a link that would cause malware to be installed on your computer. I delete them for your safety. It may seem unlikely, but I do have a bit of a life outside of the list, and sometimes there is a lapse of hours between the time you post and the time your post appears in email. Please don't assume that Yahoo has malfunctioned, although you would quite often be right. If you re-post and I don't catch the duplicate it just clutters up the list. Please wait 24 hours before assuming that Yahoo has failed, or that I have moved into the narrow apartment.

Replies

This list is all about the sharing of information. Without that we've got nothing but a whinge-fest. (If you are unfamiliar with the term 'whinge' Google it or ask someone from UK or Australia.) When crafting your response please trim off the bits of the 34 others who replied before you. Otherwise we have a post that becomes a list in its own right and threatens to break the Internet like a Kardashian. Some members have to pay for each precious nugget of information that they harvest from the Internet and extraneous information just costs them money that might be better spent on fabric. Those of us with "unlimited" cable connections cheerfully overpay for unmetered service that delivers at 10% of the speed we are supposedly paying for. This will continue until mergers and acquisitions eventually result in a single gigantic cable company that provides substandard service sometime between 10am Tuesday and 4pm Friday, please be home when we call.

Beware the echo

So a digest arrives and the first post asks the age-old question "Should I put peanut butter in my bobbin case to make it run smoother?" Many (or most) of you will immediately hit the reply button to follow up with the obvious answer of "Creamy or crunchy?". This results in a digest that is 20-30% echoes of the same reply, which coincidentally was the very next post in the original digest. That makes for tough reading and some may give up in disgust, causing them to miss the critically important answer to a question at the end of the digest. Missing that, they ask the very same question the next day, of course only after using the completely useless search feature in Yahoo Groups. So please avoid making fast replies until you've read the entire digest and made certain that no one else has already said what you planned to say. Of course if you feel it's important to issue a reply in the Klingon language, that's fine, but be aware that this can offend Romulans. Oh, and of course you probably already know the correct answer to the peanut butter question, which is:

NEVER peanut butter, as this will attract rats and squirrels that nibble on your bobbins. Always use mayonnaise. It may attract ants, but they won't hurt your bobbins.

Thank you for your attention. We now return you to your regularly scheduled list. Cookies are in the oven if you care to wait.

When opening the software yesterday was told an update was available but when I attempted to download, it crashed.  I was able to still get the program to open at that time.  However, today, I got a "hasp driver may need to be updated" message with instructions to go to Wilcom for assistance.  Tried Wilcom and apparently they don't support MBX?  Anyway, decided to go to the Janome site and try to download the update again and it installed and fixed the problem.

I had been reading all of the posts about problems with W10 free download and MBX and even though my system has been running perfectly with that combination and even on a Mac with Parallels, I was concerned that could be my problem.  Anyway, thought I would post this incase someone else has the same problem.

The MBX 5.0 update is from 5.0J to 5.OK

Caroline