Al, <div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>ron</div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com">alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">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>
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<br><div><div class="im"><div>On Mar 7, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Allan Gilreath, RPT wrote:</div><br></div><blockquote type="cite">
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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" target="_blank">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>
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Best to all,<br>
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On 3/7/2011 11:12 AM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote:
<blockquote 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?
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<div>On Mar 7, 2011, at 10:31 AM, David Love wrote:</div>
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<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>
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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>
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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>
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(plus I can't employ my auto spell checker in the new
format--did I mention<br>
that?)<br>
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David Love<br>
<a href="http://www.davidlovepianos.com/" target="_blank">www.davidlovepianos.com</a><br>
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