[pianotech] Starting a new thread directly from your email

[David Love]

Yes, this really shortcuts the system and lets you operate totally outside
the website if that's what you prefer.  All one needs to do then is to make
sure you are registered and set up the profile (fairly painless) and then
periodically check to see if there aren't other discussion groups that have
formed that you may want to be getting feeds from which is not that much
unlike the broad number of lists that now exist.   

However, that does bring up another issue.  My own preference re the
formation of discussion groups is that they are preset by the home office
otherwise there is the potential for endless numbers of separate discussion
groups and it makes it unwieldy.  My suggestion would be to use the
categories that the conventions often divide into (aside from the pianotech
and caut groups).  These could be tuning, regulation, soundboard design,
business...broader categories under which everything else would be subsumed.
I'm seeing already that the number of groups is growing and getting a bit
too specific, for example "concert regulation and preparation" could easily
fall into a subject line under regulation.  Anyway, a suggestion for the
home office.   

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com

cc Ron Berry


-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Gravagne [mailto:ngravagne at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 12:22 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Cc: David Love; ptg_pianotechne at egroups.ptg.org; ptg_cautne at egroups.ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Starting a new thread directly from your email

Thanks, David --- very helpful.

I checked both Pianotech and CAUT at the my.ptg site, and both your
postings made it through.

NG

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, David Love
<davidlovepianos at comcast.net> wrote:
> So are people aware that you can start a new thread without going to the
> website by simply sending your email to ptg_pianotechne at egroups.ptg.org.
> (there's an underscore between ptg and pianotechne in case it doesn't show
> up that way). Type in your subject heading as you would normally and it
> simply gets picked up by the system and posted.  That basically means you
> can operate pretty much outside the website if you choose to, much like
the
> old system.  I was not aware of this until I just tried it.
>
> The same theory would apply to any one of the discussion groups based on
how
> they are named for example to post to caut discussion group would be
> ptg_cautne at egroups.ptg.org. I've tried to post this to multiple groups
> (Pianotech and Caut both) to see if this works.
>
> Notification settings should be PDA and Text.
>
> David Love
> www.davidlovepianos.com
>
>
>
>



-- 
Nick Gravagne, RPT
AST Mechanical Engineering