Al, You got it right, except that when you click "Reply to Discussion" it will launch your browser and take to the right spot in the forum to make a reply. ron On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft < alliedpianocraft at hotmail.com> wrote: > So as I understand it. All posts made to the pianotech forum will continue > to come to us by way of email if we are subscribed to "Real Time" and you > need to reply via the "Reply to Discussion" tab in the post to keep the > discussion on the forum, yes?. And all posts sent via email will not show up > on the forum, yes? > > So from that can I conclude that once everyone is signed up to the forum, > it will be business as usual and all discussion will come into your email > box where you can "Reply to Discussion". So, the only time you need to go to > the web forum is to initiate a new discussion, Yes? > > Al - > High Point, NC > > > > On Mar 7, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Allan Gilreath, RPT wrote: > > The email lists are still in place temporarily during the transition > period. For posts to be archived, they should be done through the Forums. > Reading of posts can easily be done through email by setting your > preferences in my.ptg.org, Discussions, My Subscriptions to Real Time, > Daily Digest, PDA, No emails (that your be web only reading) or unsubscribe. > Replies that are made strictly through the email list will be lost in the > near future. > > Best to all, > > Allan > Allan Gilreath, RPT > Registered Piano Technician > <2007-RPT-Logo-Web.jpg> > > President - Piano Technicians Guild > pres at ptg.org > www.ptg.org > phone - 706 602-7667 > > > On 3/7/2011 11:12 AM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote: > > I don't understand what going on with the posting now. Do we continue to > post and reply using our email client or do we now need to go online to the > PTG website to send and read posts? > > Al - > High Point, NC > > > > On Mar 7, 2011, at 10:31 AM, David Love wrote: > > I'm reposting this using the email system because I'm not sure where it's > getting to in the new my.ptg... format, where it will be posted or who will > have access to it (part of the problem). > > So far this new format is a complete bomb for me. The email system was > much > simpler and sometimes simpler is better. I could filter all PTG list > messages to a separate folder and easily go there and scan all messages in > one sweep and delete or whatever very quickly. Now I have to log in > (completely impractical on my PDA) and jump around to discussions and then > open each discussion to see if there's something I want to read. If a > group > has been formed I have to jump into that group (or join it first??? not > even > sure why one needs to join a group at this point since the postings are > visible to everyone). As in this format I don't seem to be able to post to > multiple lists with one posting (as I'm trying to here to send this both to > CAUT and Pianotech lists). This format requires way too much rooting > around > to see if there's something of interest. The organizational aspect of it > is > fine in terms of searching a thread and such but turning it into a Facebook > type of thing just overcomplicates it. I'm willing to be convinced > otherwise but so far so bad, at least for me. > > Let me add something else that I didn't mention above in the original > posting. The group formation thing seems like a good idea but I can see > where you may end up with some countless numbers of groups and all you've > really done is create a system that makes it that much more difficult for > people to figure out what dialogues are going on that they might be > interested in hearing and monitor those reasonably or what they might be > missing. > > I'm sure that the move to do this was well intended but in terms of my > participation, I can see this has just added enough unnecessary steps to > make it questionable as to whether it's worth the trouble. It's certainly > less expedient and that may be enough to push me out of active > participation. If that was the intention, to make it just that much more > difficult to try and remove some of the chatty garbage that tends to clog > the lists then I would say it's a success. But if the idea is to encourage > participation by making it easier, then so far it's a failure. > > (plus I can't employ my auto spell checker in the new format--did I mention > that?) > > > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > > > > > > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ronald Berry Piano Service Indianapolis, IN 317-255-8213 ron at berrypiano.com http://www.berrypiano.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ask me about Healthy Chocolate! http://www.berrygoodchocolate.com Public Key http://www.berrypiano.com/key/Ron_Berry.txt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110307/9b283f3c/attachment.htm>
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