| [GMCnet] I was not aware that I was causing a problem [message #294606] |
Thu, 28 January 2016 09:10  |
glwgmc
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Yup, I purposefully broke the thread here but was not aware that my reply posts were breaking threads elsewhere. If anyone can point to what I am doing or not doing to cause this I will gladly fix it. I use an iMac, an iPad and an iPhone, the iMac normally while we are at home and the others while on travel.
My normal process is to highlight and copy the relevant part of a message I want to respond to, then hit the email address to bring up a mail window, paste the copied text after my tag line, then copy the subject and paste it into the subject line, enter the new message and send.
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed & hand crafted
in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building
in historic Kerby, OR
http://jerrywork.com
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> ...The problem with email entries into a thread based forum is that the "RE:" entries disrupt the entire flow concept of a thread...it starts a
> NEW THREAD!!
No it doesn't. There are a few folks that have something going on with their email client that does that (EVERY post from Jerry Work, for example,
starts a new thread), but the rest just get appended. This thread being an example, both types of replies are chained together in it.Quote
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| Re: [GMCnet] I was not aware that I was causing a problem [message #294607 is a reply to message #294606] |
Thu, 28 January 2016 09:28  |
Terry Taylor
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Below is why it breaks the thread, Jerry, you need to select REPLY (or REPLY TO) from your eMail client. That should keep the thread intact.
Once you have the reply window open, you can delete extraneous text.
On 1/28/2016 7:10 AM, Gerald Work wrote:
> My normal process is to highlight and copy the relevant part of a message I want to respond to, then hit the email address to bring up a mail window, paste the copied text after my tag line, then copy the subject and paste it into the subject line, enter the new message and send.
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| Re: [GMCnet] I was not aware that I was causing a problem [message #294619 is a reply to message #294607] |
Thu, 28 January 2016 11:35 |
A Hamilto
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glwgmc wrote on Thu, 28 January 2016 09:10Yup, I purposefully broke the thread here but was not aware that my reply posts were breaking threads elsewhere. If anyone can point to what I am doing or not doing to cause this I will gladly fix it. I use an iMac, an iPad and an iPhone, the iMac normally while we are at home and the others while on travel.
My normal process is to highlight and copy the relevant part of a message I want to respond to, then hit the email address to bring up a mail window, paste the copied text after my tag line, then copy the subject and paste it into the subject line, enter the new message and send.
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed & hand crafted
in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building
in historic Kerby, OR
http://jerrywork.com I suggested one time in the past that normal mail client behavior wouldn't cause every reply to a post to create a new post and it took "deliberate" effort on the part of the poster to cause that. Someone shouted me down and I let it go.
You just verified that I was right.
I try not to recommend changes to the behavior of the listserver crowd, because they are so defensive (check out Terry's reply to my first post in this thread). But here goes...
When you want to start a new topic, that is when you create a new email note using the listserver email address in the "To" line. Then make any subject line you want and any message body text you want.
If you want your replies to a thread to weave with the rest of the string, you need to reply to the email and not do the cut and paste thing. After you hit "Reply", you should delete any extraneous stuff that is not relevant. Some people never delete the previous 47 emails that are appended to a reply to a reply to a reply to a reply... It can take a lot of scrolling to get past what should be a one line post. And the repeated appendage that the listserver sticks on and the end of their reply AFTER ALL THOSE REPLIES TO REPLIES looks like this:
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