Response in Post, was: Avery Todd/Re..My Post

[Cy Shuster]

With the digest, you get a whole day's worth of postings in a single
message.  If you were to copy and quote what you are replying to, it would
copy all of the postings!  He'd have to then weed out everything except the
post he's responding to.  And the subject is just "Pianotech Digest #41922"
or some such.

Joe is already taking the time to edit the subject lines.  It would be a
burden to edit the whole digest, as well.  But I agree: sometimes it would
help if he could just paste one line in from the previous post...

I used to read the digest, to sort it out from everything else, but I have
really come to prefer the individual messages.  Outlook Express allows
messages to be grouped by "conversation" (on the View menu), so that all
messages on the same subject appear together.  Much easier for me to
remember my train of thought!

The key to making this work for me was to sort out these messages from all
the others.  Outlook (and Eudora) can do this with "message rules".   These
instructions are for Outlook Express 6; other mailers are similar.

Create a new folder under your Inbox (select Inbox, right click).  Click
Tools | Message Rules | Mail, and click "New".  Under "Select the Conditions
for your rule:", check "Where the To or CC line contains people".  Under
"Select the Actions for your rule", check "Move it to the specified folder".
Under "Rule Description", click the link "contains people".  In the "Select
People" dialog, type "pianotech@ptg.org" (without quotes), click "Add", then
type "files@ptg.org" and add that (this is for posts with file attachments).
Click OK.  Now click the "specified" link, select the new folder you created
in your Inbox, and click OK.  It's that easy!  :-)  Now all these posts will
automatically be moved to that folder.

Click View | Current View and make sure that "Group Messages by
Conversation" has a check mark in front of it.  You can still sort messages
by date.  I use the down arrow to go through the messages, and right arrow
to expand a "thread".  Best of all, you can delete a whole thread by
selecting it while it's collapsed (use left arrow to collapse it).  Skip all
those pesky square grand posts!  ;-)  (I'd really like to hear more of them,
after hearing a fortepiano at the regional conference here last year).

--Cy Shuster--
Rochester, MN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:52 AM
Subject: Response in Post, was: Avery Todd/Re..My Post


> Hi Joe. When I respond to a post, the original automatically appears in my
response post - I don't have to type it in manually. Obviously, your set up
does not do that. I wonder why? Is it because you are reading the posts from
the digest (wich I know nothing about)? Do others that respond from the
digest have the original post appear in their response automatically
somehow?
>
> I ask this because I value Joe's inputs, but often find it difficult to
figure out what he is responding to.
>
> Terry Farrell