Jane is important to our lace community. A cry of dismay was buried in a message from her today (16th). Is there someone on this list who has the technical capability and vision required to work on this problem that seems to be proliferating? How about a small committee with representation that understands the limitations of smaller providers of service? Do we need an additional site for those people who are not receiving email transmitted via AOL and some other companies? Do we all need to access Arachne archives daily to see what mail we have not received that may be of value? (That would be a solution, Jane. Recent mail is listed in date/time order.) Maybe it is time to address the issue of the very old server Arachne uses? Not sure that is the problem. We might need to raise money, but it would be for a very good cause. Here are three matters of concern to me: 1. Users still are not editing the Subject when they write about something entirely different. We cannot expect a computer to automatically do this. Please send a new message when you drastically change the Subject. 2. Our old correspondence was erased from the archives at some time in the past. It was of value and contained much good advice from experts no longer with us. It must not happen again. 3. The archives are very disorganized. When you search a key word or phrase, you get a very long list of correspondence in random order. It is not sorted in date/time order. It would be much easier for researchers if this could be done, so that the most recent mails would appear first, and the oldest would be last. A researcher could then decide whether to work from present to past - or from past to present. There are over 1,000 people subscribed to Arachne. We cannot be expected to remember everyone's individual problems when communicating. We need a universal "fix". Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center ---------------------------- In a message dated 6/16/2015 4:06:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I've noticed a number of emails I haven't received lately - which is why I'm replying to Donna's question using Adele's post - the one from Jacquie Tinch about the International Lace Day didn't come through, and I'm resigned to the fact that Jeri's posts won't get to me again. It would seem that 'live' (which comes under the umbrella of Outlook.com) has the same view as yahoo when it comes to other service providers, a problem I never had with Demon! (The reason we changed was down to total lack of internet service). I would suggest that if anyone emails me privately and doesn't get a response, if they are in the Facebook Lacemakers' group, they message me via Facebook to check I've received their email.
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