<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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? <div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Al -</div><div>High Point, NC</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Mar 7, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Allan Gilreath, RPT wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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 <a href="http://my.ptg.org">my.ptg.org</a>, 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.<br> <br> Best to all,<br> <br> <span style="color: black;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Allan</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Allan Gilreath, RPT</span><br> Registered Piano Technician<br> <span><2007-RPT-Logo-Web.jpg></span><br> <span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">President - Piano Technicians Guild</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> <a href="mailto:pres@ptg.org">pres@ptg.org</a><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> <a href="http://www.ptg.org/"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">www.ptg.org</span></a><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> <font size="2"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">phone - 706 602-7667</span></font></div> </div> </span><br> <br> On 3/7/2011 11:12 AM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:BLU0-SMTP17431696357F0C2C6BBA01DDC70@phx.gbl" type="cite">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? <div><br> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium; "> <div>Al -</div> <div>High Point, NC</div> <div><br> </div> </span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br> <div> <div>On Mar 7, 2011, at 10:31 AM, David Love wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div>I'm reposting this using the email system because I'm not sure where it's<br> getting to in the new my.ptg... format, where it will be posted or who will<br> have access to it (part of the problem).  <br> <br> So far this new format is a complete bomb for me.  The email system was much<br> simpler and sometimes simpler is better.  I could filter all PTG list<br> messages to a separate folder and easily go there and scan all messages in<br> one sweep and delete or whatever very quickly.  Now I have to log in<br> (completely impractical on my PDA) and jump around to discussions and then<br> open each discussion to see if there's something I want to read.  If a group<br> has been formed I have to jump into that group (or join it first??? not even<br> sure why one needs to join a group at this point since the postings are<br> visible to everyone).  As in this format I don't seem to be able to post to<br> multiple lists with one posting (as I'm trying to here to send this both to<br> CAUT and Pianotech lists).  This format requires way too much rooting around<br> to see if there's something of interest.  The organizational aspect of it is<br> fine in terms of searching a thread and such but turning it into a Facebook<br> type of thing just overcomplicates it.  I'm willing to be convinced<br> otherwise but so far so bad, at least for me.<br> <br> Let me add something else that I didn't mention above in the original<br> posting.  The group formation thing seems like a good idea but I can see<br> where you may end up with some countless numbers of groups and all you've<br> really done is create a system that makes it that much more difficult for<br> people to figure out what dialogues are going on that they might be<br> interested in hearing and monitor those reasonably or what they might be<br> missing.  <br> <br> I'm sure that the move to do this was well intended but in terms of my<br> participation, I can see this has just added enough unnecessary steps to<br> make it questionable as to whether it's worth the trouble.  It's certainly<br> less expedient and that may be enough to push me out of active<br> participation.  If that was the intention, to make it just that much more<br> difficult to try and remove some of the chatty garbage that tends to clog<br> the lists then I would say it's a success.  But if the idea is to encourage<br> participation by making it easier, then so far it's a failure.  <br> <br> (plus I can't employ my auto spell checker in the new format--did I mention<br> that?)<br> <br> <br> <br> David Love<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.davidlovepianos.com/">www.davidlovepianos.com</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>