Re: [FWDLK] L-FORWARDLOOK Digest

[john ferrier <ferrier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe I,m one of those folks that is pissin everybody off. When I receive an
Email that I wish to reply to, I just hit the "ReplyAll" button. Is that
wrong?
John Ferrier
55 Coronet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] L-FORWARDLOOK Digest


> My only nit to pick is when someone replies to a digest and sends the
whole
> !(^#@$ digest back through with the reply on the top.  Maybe you have to
> puzzle through the whole thing to figure out what it's in response to, and
> it takes a bunch of time to download on my antiquated dial-up internet
> service.   It's not that hard to highlight the part of the message that
> would be the reply-message and copy it to a new message to reply with.
>
> That's only happened once or twice on here, and I get this list
individually
> so it's not a big deal.   It's worse when you subscribe to a digest and
get
> another digest buried in the middle of it, that you already got.
>
>
> I think that when your message has more than 2 old messages on the bottom
as
> in a reply to the reply to the initial post, it's time to start editing
the
> junk off of them, but for the most part I agree that you need at least the
> last message to help make heads or tails of what is being replied to.
>
>
>
> My $0.02 -
>
>
> Bill K.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray Jones" <hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [FWDLK] L-FORWARDLOOK Digest
>
>
> > Once again, I use a Mac with Safari browser. My email keeps all posts
> > with the same subject line together. So, by not erasing the first
> > email, any later ones with the same subject line (as in Re:...) are put
> > in a file together on the new email page. If there 10 replies over 2
> > days, they are all kept together, shown on my screen at the time the
> > latest one was posted. When I click on that email file (in date/time
> > order on the screen), it expands with all the emails I haven't erased
> > on that subject, one below the other. In short, I have the whole
> > timeline of posts. It's the only way I can keep track of them. When the
> > subject seems to be done with, I can delete the afile. If its not of
> > interest to me, I delete as we go along. You may be able to set your
> > browser settings that way.
> >
> > But if you can, leave out most of the previous replies in your reply,
> > just scroll thru them on the reply page and delete anything not needed.
> >
> > And remember folks, a list cannot please everyone all the time, so
> > delete if of no interest or enjoy all of them and the various comments.
> > There may just be something of great benefit to you in some of them.
> >
> > regards, Ray
> >
> >
> > On Mar 10, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Garrett wrote:
> >
> > > I know what Rich is saying, as I have subscribed to a couple groups in
> > > Digest mode for a couple days...until I realized that I really would
> > > prefer to receive individual e-mails or nothing at all (if I can
> > > access the messages some other way).  It can be a BIG pain scrolling
> > > through messages, looking for where the next message begins and the
> > > others end, especially if there is not a table of contents with all
> > > the messages linked to their position in the e-mail.  This is what I
> > > hated the most...perhaps it was the ONLY thing I hated about digest
> > > mode...but it's highly annoying............
> >
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