Hi Clayton, no, by [REPLY] I didn't mean change the subject line. I'd find it hard myself to keep track of messages if the subject kept changing. I can't seem to find the setting, as it isn't obvious in the settings page or Labs page, for setting the colour I see replies in, so I find it hard to distinguish them unless there's a gap inbetween the original text and actual reply from someone in the thread. All the text seems black to me but my Mum tells me that the replies I get back from people are in dark purple and I'd like to change them to bright red or something similar so I can see them. I've put it forward as a change to Google, so we'll see if anything comes from it.
Ray very kindly experimented with me yesterday by manually putting in [REPLY] to every line that he wrote, so I was just looking for a quicker way. I was only suggesting that if anyone was replying, is it possible to set up email to have a marker in it, you know like in Outlook you can set it up when you are reviewing something it automatically enters your name from the properties settings. Wasn't sure if anything similar was available in GMail. On 31 May 2010 02:39, ccornell - OpenOffice.org <[email protected]>wrote: > On 05/30/10 17:44, Claire Wood wrote: > >> I'm going to pick up from where I left off with the Impress Guide on >> Tuesday. So I'll start with Chapter 4 and work my way along. I'm >> astonished >> no one has touched it since the other week. >> > > That comes from everyone being caught up and busy with too many things :-P > The editing and reviewing is something that always seems to be forgotten or > set aside for later. > > > > Jean/Clayton - I'm only putting the technical accuracy check mark on the >> first page of each chapter. Hope that's OK? >> > > I think that's fine for now. > > We have a couple options... > - putting the check note on only the first page of a chapter > - using the Wiki Bot to add the check to rest of the pages in a chapter > - using the FlaggedRevs extension (installed, but turned off by default) > to flag pages as reviewed > > > > [Just a minor point, to help me keep track of replies. Can you tag your >> replies with square braces and REPLY [REPLY] please, >> > > That's going to be a hard one to implement. I can't add that to the way > the mailing list is set up... and getting people to change the subject line > (which is what I'm assuming you're asking here?) is pretty much impossible > to enforce/implement. > > You're using GMail right? GMail threads messages based on Subject (a > totally broken and wrong way to do this, but that's how Google does it). If > someone changes the subject line, it will break the thread in GMail and show > up as a totally new thread/message. Then if someone replies to the original > and forgets to edit the subject line, or even edits the subject line and > inserts an extra space or some other text, you'll find that the message will > be attached to the old/original thread, or will start in its own new thread. > Your messages will become even more unmanageable, and hopelessly > disconnected from the parent message. > > GMail is a royal pain with mailing lists because of this - I use Gmail for > mailing lists as well, so have had years of experience with the annoyances > of this mail client. > > You can set Labels in GMail to help sort your messages... > > > C. > -- > Clayton Cornell [email protected] > OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Best wishes Claire Wood
