On Mar 29, 2004, at 10:23 PM, NPfield at aol.com wrote: > I'm still not sure just how one gets in (i.e. answers to) a given > thread, but maybe that'll come.?? Beyond that, I might suggest that > someone take a look (if you haven't) at the Appleworks Users Group > Forum page (www.awug.org, I think).? It's neat and clean and almost > automatically saves dumb people like me from asking dumb questions > about posting, threads, etc.
As far as I can tell, the Appleworks group runs an online forum and not a mailing list. Please don't confuse the two! An online forum is a dynamic Web page onto which readers can add their comments. This is a mailing list. The idea is really simple. When you signed up for the list, your e-mail address was added to a roster containing the addresses of all the subscribers. Any e-mail message sent to the list address (macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu) is automatically forwarded to all the addresses on the subscriber roster. Think of it as an e-mail multiplier. In the case of the digest, the messages are saved, concatenated, and sent out as one long message at 5:15 in the afternoon instead of being individually and immediately sent. The thread titles are nothing more than the subjects of the e-mails. To create this new thread, all I did was reply to your message with a different title. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
