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To: RJL who wrote (4140)	6/18/1999 3:44:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 110631

I like the alphabetical sorting because things are easy to find. I'll never forget the alphabet but I might forget which was my favorite Favorite yesterday. Also, ie lets you drag the favorites right on the menu for personalizing the order. Not sure how well it "sticks" though. I didn't discover this feature for a long time. w

To: RJL who wrote (4140)	6/18/1999 3:59:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110631

Another approach to Favourites ... As usual, it's rather odd! Like you guys, I have a population explosion of favourites to find housing for. To keep it simple, when I find I'm getting lost in my favourite maze, I copy the whole bunch to a HTML file so I can display the whole mess on one screen, which can comfortably hold about 100 links, and once I get used to where they are, I can navigate with comfort. Every year or so, I weed the garden and make room for a fresh crop. Since I hate to scroll, I just add links to new files whenever needed. I don't have 4,000 links, but if I did, I'd have one screen of links to 40 pages of 100 each. What I find convenient is being able to place a lengthy description with each link. I also control the order too. Another thing I find handy: with sites which require a username and password, I can put the username (and PW hint) with the link. Nothing like signing-up and forgetting who you are! One upside to this -- I copied ONE file to bring them from my old Netscape machine to my new Explorer machine. (Actually one, then the missing files later.) Cheers, PW.