David,
If the web browse you are using has a "memory" function, when you want to respond to a posting, it may take a few seconds to come up, unless you leave the website up and running all the time, then all you have to do is bring it to front on your computer.
Ken Gerler
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From: David Love
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] New Format--y___
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
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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
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