And, might I add, emails that don't have a bunch of not-so-pretty colors and a huge, unnecessary, redundant PTG graphic and lots of blank lines and lines of dashes when one responds.<br><br>When I (try to) read posts in gmail, all the extraneous junk is "normal" font size. The meat, being what someone says and what I want to read, is tiny and scrunched. Sounds bass-ackwards to me, forgive the pseudo-french.<br>
<br>Seems to me it could and should be a lot cleaner and simpler. A threaded, forum-style archive, if you will, would (have) be(en) fabulous. <br><br>Paul Bruesch<br>Stillwater, MN<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:14 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>That's just it, Allan. Why the need to log in? Why can't we just read our e-mails like we've always done. </div>
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From: Allan Gilreath, RPT <<a href="mailto:allangilreath@bellsouth.net" target="_blank">allangilreath@bellsouth.net</a>><br>
To: pianotech <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br>
Sent: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 3:50 am<br>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Sheesh!<br>
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Login is as simple as entering your member number and password that you received on your membership card form (the one you received after paying your dues.) Even better is that you can change your user name and password to something easier to remember.<br>
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<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>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">President - Piano Technicians Guild</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><a href="mailto:pres@ptg.org" target="_blank">pres@ptg.org</a><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<a href="http://www.ptg.org/" target="_blank"><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>
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On 3/8/2011 1:18 AM, Joseph Garrett wrote:
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<div><font size="+0">When you log in to <a href="http://my.ptg.org" target="_blank">my.ptg.org</a>, select "Discussions", and "My </font></div>
<div><font size="+0">subscriptions", then you can set how you want each list you're </font></div>
<div><font size="+0">subscribed to to send to you. The options are Real time, Daily Digest, </font></div>
<div><font size="+0">PDA, No emails (read online only) or to unsubscribe. You can also choose </font></div>
<div><font size="+0">whether you want your posts in plain text or HTML. I know there's been a </font></div>
<div><font size="+0">lot of discussion on the list in the past few years about some folks who </font></div>
<div><font size="+0">only want plain text emails so that's an option.</font></div>
<div><font size="+0">Best regards,"</font></div>
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<div><font size="+0">Allan,</font></div>
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<div>Sheesh!</div>
<div>That's easy to you to say. I can't even get the darned thing to log me in! All this really sucks, IMNSHO!</div>
<div>Joe</div>
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<div>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.</div>
<div>Captain of the Tool Police</div>
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