Christina,

Welcome to the unfortunate world of topic drift. And yes, I was one of those
that added to the drift. I'll be slightly defensive and state that my posting
was in direct response to a stated technical issue (line width) and was void
of hysterics and/or obscenities. I'm unable to offer a "cure" for such drift
other than "ignore".

Jim

As someone with waist length hair i'm sad to hear that.

No actually it's turned into people who haven't figured out how to
go into the settings of their usenet newsgroup reader and use those
settings.

Extremely easy to do.   Those settings are there for a reason.

But getting back to the subject, yes you can train a kitten to
not do stuff.   Bear in mind a kitten is like a little kid,  
it will take time for the kitten to learn what it can and
can't do.  

Mine learned long ago that my hair was off limits, that fingers
and toes are attached and hurt sometimes when they are clawed.
It takes patience but the kitten can be trained to not do stuff
you don't want done.  

Sometimes the kiten reponds to "ow" and "no."  But sometimes you
need to do something like use a spary bottle with water in it.