Not being a computer person, I don't know if this is possible: When you have
a reply to a post, whether it is a contribution or just a compliment,
would it be possible to make the computer automatically put a reply notice
in the topic window, along with the original topic line?
-Original
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote:
So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos,
computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a
substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for
everything else?
That strikes me as being more likely to
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Robin Netherton wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote:
So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos,
computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a
substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for
everything
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote:
So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos,
computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a
substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for
everything else?
I don't like the idea of having topic tags.
On Monday 17 July 2006 1:53 am, Robin Netherton wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote:
So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos,
computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a
substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for
For what it's worth; I didn't read Fran's original suggestion as asking that
every post be tagged in some way. I thought she was only recommending that
we establish a small set (no more than 4, say) of common tags (such as
CHAT:) that people would be encouraged to use. I apologize for not
Can we kill this discussion?
There's nothing wrong with this list.
If something comes up that you don't want to read, don't read it. If you
accidentally read something you find to be a waste of time, well boo hoo! Who
here has spent any significant amount of time reading such things?
This
Can we kill this discussion?
There's nothing wrong with this list.
If something comes up that you don't want to read, don't read it. If you
accidentally read something you find to be a waste of time, well boo hoo! Who
here has spent any significant amount of time reading such things?
On Sunday 16 July 2006 6:27 pm, Lavolta Press wrote:
[snip]
I am on an extremely active list for translators from foreign languages,
which has a very useful system. They require every subject line to be
prefixed with one of a series of standard headers designated by the
group's official
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
I think this is an excellent idea and second Fran's recommendation
that we implement it on h-costume.
I have seen this work extraordinarily well on exactly one list -- a list
for copyeditors, who are, by definition, able to deal with
I'm afraid I don't see such a system as easy to implement on h-cost, where
we have a membership that's extremely diverse, representing people from
many countries and of varying levels of ease at handling language and
niggly bits of formatting.
In fact many more h-costume members are native
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