<div dir="ltr">Thumpe, <div><br></div><div style>New forum? Which one? JD's googlegroup? PTG's Google+ "community"? Or PTG's Facebook (yagottabekiddingme!) page? Or the two-year-old HL forum... the one that was immediately admitted to NeoNatal care upon delivery, and which has continued to fail to mature to the point it darned well ought to have been at inception, much less two years hence? </div> <div style><br></div><div style>Presumably you are asking about the last one, HL. Yes, there is a setting (whose name has been changed so I can't tell you without grubbing around there) that permits you to receive emails from the forum, and send email posts to the forum. You cannot, however, send or receive attachments via email. Some hibbity-jibbity-attached photos from the forum might show up in your email, apparently determined by your latitude/longitude/attitude, moon phase, OS, and browser.</div> <div style><br></div><div style>Overall, it's hardly what most of us (with a few exceptions) consider great, but as long as we're just dealing with text, email works pretty well with it. Sadly, there's always been a shortage of photos and other message-enhancing attachments (e.g. sound files), and HL just makes that into one humongous PITA.</div> <div style><br></div><div style>Bruesch</div><div style>Minnesota</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Euphonious Thumpe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"><div></div></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div> <div> <br> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <font face="Tahoma"> <hr size="1"> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span> </b> Euphonious Thumpe <<a href="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>>; <br> <b> <span>To:</span> </b> <<a href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net" target="_blank">joegarrett@earthlink.net</a>>; <br> <b> <span>Subject:</span> </b> Re: [pianotech] Still more crap! <br> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span> </b> Mon, Feb 25, 2013 2:13:38 PM <br> </font> <br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="font:inherit"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"><div>AllI want to know is this: will posts to the new forum show up in my regular Yahhoo email inbox, or not? Our energy is precious in these trying times, and I want to see if any important new technical info is waiting for me to learn about while I eat, scanning the subject headings, WITHOUT having to log on to a separate site! (Which may turn out to be an utter waste of effort.) And will the new site be technical-heavy and social-light (like this one) or the other way around??? (And "Pianoworld" won't work at all for me, because much of its membership is comprised of fans of all-things-piano just seeking comoanionship --- and not serious students of restoration!)<br> <br><br>Thumpe</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div> <div> <br> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <font face="Tahoma"> <hr size="1"> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span> </b> Joseph Garrett <<a href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net" target="_blank">joegarrett@earthlink.net</a>>; <br> <b> <span>To:</span> </b> Phil Bondi <<a href="mailto:phil@philbondi.com" target="_blank">phil@philbondi.com</a>>; pianotech <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech@ptg.org</a>>; <br> <b> <span>Subject:</span> </b> [pianotech] Still more crap! <br> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span> </b> Mon, Feb 25, 2013 8:46:51 AM <br> </font> <br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Phil,<br>You said: <br>".From: Phil Bondi<br>Posted: Sunday February 24, 2013 8:53 PM<br>Subject: RE:Pianotech Mail-List Server closing April 1st<br> Message: <br>Paul,<br>The reason for the multiple methods is this:<br> <br>There's been enough flack given to the Board about <a href="http://my.ptg.org" target="_blank">my.ptg.org</a> from<br><a rel="nofollow">pianotech@ptg.org</a> that they felt giving that list of participants an option<br> was necessary. The Electronic Communications Committee was asked to come up<br>with an alternative to <a rel="nofollow">pianotech@ptg.org</a>. They gave us Google+, which in my<br>opinion has possibilities. It's not email, and that alone has its drawbacks<br> for some, but it is an alternative. The Board also recognizes that there are<br>a few more options out there for piano techs to have discussion and ask<br>questions. Pianoworld comes to mind as an active place for techs. Personally<br>I am not involved there, but am aware of it. The PTG Facebook page has had<br>its share of discussion there also.<br> <br>The Board would like nothing more than to have all the finest techs in the<br> world discussing here on this platform. Being realistic that's not going to<br>happen. <br> <br>Paul, I hope that answers your question."<br>-------------------------------------------<br>-phil,<br>Are you speaking on behalf of the entire Board? Or, just yourself/ Or, just<br> for the Executive Committee, that has been extremely silent? The above is<br>crap and you know it. So much placating garbage imo. I expect more from you<br>Phil. You, of all people should be able to know what is right for PTG. The<br> HL format is not cutting it. Face it. Admit it. And, move on to something<br>for EVERYONE! Let's gather the flock into one field, not scatter them<br>helter skelter! In my opinion, the Delcour thing could work. No one has<br>given it a try, as far as I know. I haven't, because it got lost in the<br>B.S. of HL ala Executive Board Rhetoric! Grrrr! I am sending this one to<br>the real list. I hope that won't piss off too many people.<G><br> Joe<br><br><br>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<br>Captain of the Tool Police<br>Squares R I<br><a rel="nofollow" href="http://gpianoworks.com/" target="_blank">http://gpianoworks.com/</a><br><br></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div>