Did I miss an announcement email about this changeover? -- JF On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> wrote: > And there's really no reason why the product can't be made to allow that. > When you post something on Facebook, for example, and someone comments on > it, you can configure your FB settings to send you an email. Then you can > simply respond to that email, just as you would any other email, and your > response to the comment is added to your post on FB as another comment. > > Paul Bruesch > Stillwater, MN > > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:18 PM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>wrote: > >> OK I’ll take back my “yuck” (deleted from the subject line) conditionally >> until I figure this whole thing out and see where it goes. For the record, >> however, should I have to log into the website for posting and reading once >> the email system shuts down I will consider that a change for the worse. >> Expedience, simplicity and ease of access is an essential part of the >> program for me. >> >> >> >> David Love >> >> www.davidlovepianos.com >> >> >> >> *From:* pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] *On >> Behalf Of *Ron Berry >> *Sent:* Monday, March 07, 2011 2:02 PM >> *To:* pianotech at ptg.org >> *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] New Format--yuck >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> > > -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110307/399f1e36/attachment.htm>
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