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Taylor, I agree with you. However, I can tell
you that as someone new to vlogging (like many here), one tends to avoid making
posts with new topics. I know I feel "shy" in that way and I am one of the
least shy people you will ever meet. It is easier (and less obtrusive) to
simply put in your comments in a reply mode.
That said, I couldn't agree more with your
advice. When you raise a new issue in a thread with another title, most
members will probably not read your comments. Few have the time to check
out all the postings here. It certainly helps when people do as you
suggest--take the statement and use it as an intro with a new title line in your
post.
I have to reiabel most of the emails I save in my
files so I can tell what the real content is about.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 7:35
PM
Subject: [videoblogging] Mail Subject
Format Technique
Thank you for the kind words Randolfe. I think a lot of
members don't
know how to start new threads every time their reply
veers off the
parent subject. That is what causes thread name vs
content confusion.
So a reminder to all:
You make a NEW mail
NOT reply to:
<videoblogging@yahoogroups.com>
Make
an address book entry for that address and use it when your
reply is
not really about the topic you see in the subject line
please
everyone.
with your TO THE POINT new string name for our OS X and
Thunderbird
Mail and PC Outlook clients to sort this stuff
appropriately. Yahoo
will take care of the group tag automatically
adding it as all the
copies are mailed out. This would help a great
deal in keeping the
Subject line relevant to content of posts. For
example in all of the
Katrina discussion, nobody took the time to
make a NEW topic with the
word "Katrina" in it. Until I got fed up
with all the Katrina talk in
topics like i/ON etc...
NOTE:
you cannot delete a subject and change it's name - that will
stay in
the WRONG string. You MUST make a NEW send with the above
address.
NOT a reply even if you change the name. thank you in
advance for
your consideration.
In OS X Mail you can search for "compression"
inside all the mail.
But my point is if we each pay attention to our
posts and keep to the
subject listed. In fact I'll do it right now.
I'm gonna copy all of
this - what would have been a reply and PASTE
it into a new string
called "Mail Subject Format
Technique".
So I am creating a new string from a reply to an outdated
and
irrelevant subject line while still retaining the last person's
quote
which led me to make this new string.
--
Taylor
Barcroft
New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist
Santa Cruz CA,
Beach of the Silicon Valley
http://FutureMedia.org
On Sep 1,
2005, at 11:37 AM, Randolfe Wicker wrote:
> I find the technical
discussions here to be invaluable and have
> been developing my
own files by putting my own title of the matter
> being discussed
in each posting since "the thread" title would be
> repetitive
and possibly misleading.
>
> I've been so busy reading, I haven't
even had time to research the
> archives of this group. I
just wonder if searching by keywords
> like "compression" will
penetrate the thread titles in which they
> are frequently
buried.
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