[Pil-pc-oceania] Thread off-posting (Jed)

[Graeme George]

Jedd

I was not aware of the problem you've alerted Deb to and I suspect  
many others may not be.  I usually only change the subject line also  
if I want to capture a reply addresss, but will endeavour to start  
afresh in future. Deb, thanks for posting your response to this list.

Graeme

On 14/05/2008, at 8:51 PM, Deb Guildner wrote:

> Dear Jed,
>
> I have tried without success to respond to you but the email bounced -
> despite hitting the reply button above YOUR email.
>
> God forbid I should have to go and do a course in 'competent email
> software"....I am already up to my neck in desktop publishing  
> studies, which
> I prefer,  for now.
>
> Re postings to the list, is it not sufficient that the subject  
> heading is
> correct - I thought that was the whole idea of subject lines, so  
> that you
> know what you are reading!!   I am fairly rational but the  
> technology may
> not be!
>
> AS no one else has reported any like 'problems' during several years  
> of
> emailing networks,
> I am not sure that this problem is worth stressing over  My methods  
> are
> somewhat habitual;
> so perhaps you will find a few more emails that do not suit your  
> software's
> filing system.....
>
> BTW, the propaganda was ABARE's, and the govt grants the 'musings':  
> they are
> silly enough to think that if they offer cash grants, some of the land
> management brains trust might apply and better spread their knowledge.
>
> I post across several lists regarding multiple issues, the PC list  
> is one.
> There is more balanced reporting of environment isues in the media  
> now than
> ever.
>
> Cheers
> Deb
>
>
> .
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jedd" <jedd at progsoc.org>
> To: "Deb Guildner" <bocor at bigbutton.com.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:09 PM
> Subject: Thread off-posting
>
>
>> Hi Deb,
>>
>> Can you please (please please please) stop posting
>> messages to the pic-pc-oceania list by replying to
>> whatever message you are looking at at the time,
>> and changing the subject field.
>>
>> It complete throws those of us with threaded mail
>> readers.  I realise this is a growing minority, but it's
>> still astonishingly annoying when trying to track topics.
>>
>> I've attached a screen-cap so you can see the effect.  What
>> was originally PIL futures suddenly morphed into Rudd.gov
>> propaganda, and then equally suddenly became ABARE
>> musings.
>>
>> If you've never used a competent email client then this
>> probably doesn't make sense.  But trust me when I assure
>> you that for those of us with decent software .. it's really
>> quite disconcerting.  Please just create a new email (not
>> a reply-to) to the pic-pc-oceania address whenever you want
>> to start a new thread.
>>
>> taa,
>> Jedd.
>>
>>
>