Re: Posts
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:16 am
I like the idea of color, etc. So I am going to try it with your comment.
Let's see how that works.
Roger Bird
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:33:20 -0700
Subject: [Minutus] Re: Posts
No you do not lose all sense of replies. Yes it is important to reply to certain points (or as you say, sentences) of another post, but no that is not why email is used. Interspersing is not necessary.
This red.
I've been on a ton of yahoogroups for about 14 years and see no one else do this but a few folks here.
And this is blue.
I have been and remain part of email groups and boards who communicate by email all the time, who do not intersperse. Rarely there have been messages or a document with a large body of material, action items or questions in which the different participants would do that but indicate their response was in a certain color, so it could be clear and differentiated easyily. Yahoogroups does not have color so that's impossible.
And this is bold.
In my hundreds of email communications per week, myself nor those I am communicating with intersperse. I am not having to do it within your message right now because I'm simply including what I am talking about in my own sentences.
And this is italics.
Another way is to do this:
As to your sentence - "EMail is intended to be downloaded on email lists - forums are for online replies."
I do not know what you are saying here...
And this is larger.
When I open a digest message from a yahoogroup there's a list of the posts. Nothing to download, just read, reply to ones inclined to, etc. There is no indent to interspersed responses. There are small arrows, which multiply with additional interspersing but unable to tell who belongs to how many little arrows to the left of each of their sentences... it quickly becomes annoying and difficult to keep straight who is saying what.
Let's see how that works.
Roger Bird
________________________________
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:33:20 -0700
Subject: [Minutus] Re: Posts
No you do not lose all sense of replies. Yes it is important to reply to certain points (or as you say, sentences) of another post, but no that is not why email is used. Interspersing is not necessary.
This red.
I've been on a ton of yahoogroups for about 14 years and see no one else do this but a few folks here.
And this is blue.
I have been and remain part of email groups and boards who communicate by email all the time, who do not intersperse. Rarely there have been messages or a document with a large body of material, action items or questions in which the different participants would do that but indicate their response was in a certain color, so it could be clear and differentiated easyily. Yahoogroups does not have color so that's impossible.
And this is bold.
In my hundreds of email communications per week, myself nor those I am communicating with intersperse. I am not having to do it within your message right now because I'm simply including what I am talking about in my own sentences.
And this is italics.
Another way is to do this:
As to your sentence - "EMail is intended to be downloaded on email lists - forums are for online replies."
I do not know what you are saying here...
And this is larger.
When I open a digest message from a yahoogroup there's a list of the posts. Nothing to download, just read, reply to ones inclined to, etc. There is no indent to interspersed responses. There are small arrows, which multiply with additional interspersing but unable to tell who belongs to how many little arrows to the left of each of their sentences... it quickly becomes annoying and difficult to keep straight who is saying what.
