Re: how you read your mail... just wondering

[Guest guest]

Me too!

Kirsten

Mum to (21mths)

> with all this talk about wrapping & text etc it made me think why

> people choose to read their mail in different ways, ie on the web

> site, all in a jumble, sorted into folders...

> anyone care to shed some light on why they " do email " in a certain

> way?!

> (I'm just nosey and curious me!!)

> Angi 0:-)

> @--->-----

>

> ps I'm a sorted into folders girl! I need to be I'm on about 16

> lists!! -and I like being able to read off line, only read on the

> website if I have a POP problem!

> __________________________________________

> Angi,Tim, Georgiana (1 Nov 97) & na (28 Jul 99) Nutt

> http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=695377

> password: twickenham

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[Guest guest]

Me too!

Kirsten

Mum to (21mths)

> with all this talk about wrapping & text etc it made me think why

> people choose to read their mail in different ways, ie on the web

> site, all in a jumble, sorted into folders...

> anyone care to shed some light on why they " do email " in a certain

> way?!

> (I'm just nosey and curious me!!)

> Angi 0:-)

> @--->-----

>

> ps I'm a sorted into folders girl! I need to be I'm on about 16

> lists!! -and I like being able to read off line, only read on the

> website if I have a POP problem!

> __________________________________________

> Angi,Tim, Georgiana (1 Nov 97) & na (28 Jul 99) Nutt

> http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=695377

> password: twickenham

> __________________________________________

[Guest guest]

I made lots of folders (but only 10 compared to your 16!!) last night so my

email is all tidied up now. :-)))

Must admit, DH is of the opinion that we shouldn't change our settings to

suit someone else's pootoo. Its up to them to use it in a way that suits

them. hadn't thought of it in that way.

Lesley

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From: Angi

with all this talk about wrapping & text etc it made me think why

people choose to read their mail in different ways, ie on the web

site, all in a jumble, sorted into folders...

anyone care to shed some light on why they " do email " in a certain

way?!

(I'm just nosey and curious me!!)

Angi 0:-)

@--->-----

ps I'm a sorted into folders girl! I need to be I'm on about 16

lists!! -and I like being able to read off line, only read on the

website if I have a POP problem!

[Guest guest]

I made lots of folders (but only 10 compared to your 16!!) last night so my

email is all tidied up now. :-)))

Must admit, DH is of the opinion that we shouldn't change our settings to

suit someone else's pootoo. Its up to them to use it in a way that suits

them. hadn't thought of it in that way.

Lesley

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From: Angi

with all this talk about wrapping & text etc it made me think why

people choose to read their mail in different ways, ie on the web

site, all in a jumble, sorted into folders...

anyone care to shed some light on why they " do email " in a certain

way?!

(I'm just nosey and curious me!!)

Angi 0:-)

@--->-----

ps I'm a sorted into folders girl! I need to be I'm on about 16

lists!! -and I like being able to read off line, only read on the

website if I have a POP problem!

[Guest guest]

me too! I ahve lots of different folders now and I only learnt about them

yesterday! It makes life so much easier.

Re: how you read your mail... just wondering

Me too!

Kirsten

Mum to (21mths)

> with all this talk about wrapping & text etc it made me think why

> people choose to read their mail in different ways, ie on the web

> site, all in a jumble, sorted into folders...

> anyone care to shed some light on why they " do email " in a certain

> way?!

> (I'm just nosey and curious me!!)

> Angi 0:-)

> @--->-----

>

> ps I'm a sorted into folders girl! I need to be I'm on about 16

> lists!! -and I like being able to read off line, only read on the

> website if I have a POP problem!

> __________________________________________

> Angi,Tim, Georgiana (1 Nov 97) & na (28 Jul 99) Nutt

> http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=695377

> password: twickenham

> __________________________________________

[Guest guest]

I have ADSL, it's fast and permanent connection so I prefer to read on

the web and not have loads of emails filling up my hard disk

Must admit, DH is of the opinion that we shouldn't change our

settings to

> suit someone else's pootoo. Its up to them to use it in a way that

suits

> them. hadn't thought of it in that way.

>

> Lesley

It's not a question of changing your settings to suit ME particularly,

it's netiquette not to type a whole paragraph on a single line which

doesn't wrap, so whoever the reader is, has a lorra hassle reading it.

Do any others find this a problem or did I make a fuss about a purely

personal irritation? If I'm the only one, then feel free to do as you

wish!

Ruthie

[Guest guest]

I have ADSL, it's fast and permanent connection so I prefer to read on

the web and not have loads of emails filling up my hard disk

Must admit, DH is of the opinion that we shouldn't change our

settings to

> suit someone else's pootoo. Its up to them to use it in a way that

suits

> them. hadn't thought of it in that way.

>

> Lesley

It's not a question of changing your settings to suit ME particularly,

it's netiquette not to type a whole paragraph on a single line which

doesn't wrap, so whoever the reader is, has a lorra hassle reading it.

Do any others find this a problem or did I make a fuss about a purely

personal irritation? If I'm the only one, then feel free to do as you

wish!

Ruthie

[Guest guest]

But when I type a message it doesn't look like one long line, so how does it

come out that way on the web?

Lesley - still mystified!

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From: ruthie@

I have ADSL, it's fast and permanent connection so I prefer to read on

the web and not have loads of emails filling up my hard disk

It's not a question of changing your settings to suit ME particularly,

it's netiquette not to type a whole paragraph on a single line which

doesn't wrap, so whoever the reader is, has a lorra hassle reading it.

Do any others find this a problem or did I make a fuss about a purely

personal irritation? If I'm the only one, then feel free to do as you

wish!

Ruthie

[Guest guest]

> But when I type a message it doesn't look like one long line, so how

does it

> come out that way on the web?

>

> Lesley - still mystified!

Because you are typing in a certain size window, and it shifts and

changes to accommodate the typing done in it. Unless you physically

press " return " every time you reach the edges of your typing

window,(and possibly even if you do!) the computer software just sees

it as one long line, and that's how it appears on the web.

At least I *think* that's how it works!

Ruthie

(almost wishing she hadn't started this :-)) )

[Guest guest]

LOL!!!

Lesley

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From: ruthie

Ruthie

(almost wishing she hadn't started this :-)) )

[Guest guest]

LOL!!!

Lesley

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From: ruthie

Ruthie

(almost wishing she hadn't started this :-)) )

[Guest guest]

Off line, in digests. no folders, never bothered, all the coffee's come

together, all the homebirths etc etc so easy to read. BTW not wishing to

cast nastursiums ruthie but the only emails that cause me much irritation

are those with large grey blank areas at the bottom that those of use on

digest have to scroll through!

Curran

Mum to Tim (7), (5), (3) and Philip 26/10/00

Co-Chair, MVA, Valley cushion agent, homebirth support and booking clerk

Selby Rural NCT

Region 7 Secretary

[Guest guest]

Off line, in digests. no folders, never bothered, all the coffee's come

together, all the homebirths etc etc so easy to read. BTW not wishing to

cast nastursiums ruthie but the only emails that cause me much irritation

are those with large grey blank areas at the bottom that those of use on

digest have to scroll through!

Curran

Mum to Tim (7), (5), (3) and Philip 26/10/00

Co-Chair, MVA, Valley cushion agent, homebirth support and booking clerk

Selby Rural NCT

Region 7 Secretary

[Guest guest]

indiv emails, sorted by rules into 27 folders, I put the rules in

order of group volume for efficiency (Don`t know if it helps, but my

prog background says it should!) e.g. coffee near the top, Announce

near the bottom.

I sort by thread. If not much time I go to the bottom and just read

the 'start of thread' messages the ones without 're' in the title, to

see what`s new. They seem to be grouped together for some reason.

I read in preview pane, I never open them, so I rarely scroll down .

I delete or reply as I go with chat groups (though I keep lots from

research groups) - the 'find' facility is used a lot to look for

teaching ideas on certain subjects.

Jokes I want to keep (very rare!) I move across to a 'funny' folder, I

tend not to fwd them.

I couldn`t work with digests!! I would never be able to retrieve

anything later ('the purpose of filing is easy retrieval`)

Barbara

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[Guest guest]

indiv emails, sorted by rules into 27 folders, I put the rules in

order of group volume for efficiency (Don`t know if it helps, but my

prog background says it should!) e.g. coffee near the top, Announce

near the bottom.

I sort by thread. If not much time I go to the bottom and just read

the 'start of thread' messages the ones without 're' in the title, to

see what`s new. They seem to be grouped together for some reason.

I read in preview pane, I never open them, so I rarely scroll down .

I delete or reply as I go with chat groups (though I keep lots from

research groups) - the 'find' facility is used a lot to look for

teaching ideas on certain subjects.

Jokes I want to keep (very rare!) I move across to a 'funny' folder, I

tend not to fwd them.

I couldn`t work with digests!! I would never be able to retrieve

anything later ('the purpose of filing is easy retrieval`)

Barbara

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[Guest guest]

Since I have yahoo mail, I can't download it, so, to save on the

amount of time I spend online, I get digests and can open several and

just use the back button to go through them and read them all.

I have all my NCT egroups (coffee, NCT, announce, and slimmers) going

into the same folder. When I signed up for more than just coffee, I

tried to put the other ones in another folder, but yahoo didn't want

to cooperate, and it turns out it's easier this way.

If I know there was something good that I have deleted, I go to the

yahoogroups website and search for it.

I must be a techno-geek, since this is a fascinating discussion to me

Phyllis

[Guest guest]

I have about six folders for all my different interests. All the NCT

groups, as well as HomebirthUK, go directly into the NCT folder. I

try to read the emails as they come in (I am permanently logged on),

but have failed miserably at this in recent weeks.

If I have a backlog of messages to read, I group them by subject (I

use MS Outlook). Then I quickly delete the ones I don't think will

interest me so that I can focus on the ones that do. If a thread is

particularly long (say more than 10 messages), I'll definitely read

it, but I'm usually too late to reply (same problem in real life).

I've had a bit of ISP trouble recently so have been No-Mail (they are

really stroppy about Yahoogroups for some reason). I find the

website fairly easy to read, especially when threaded, but I prefer

to get the messages come to me automatically rather than logging on

to the site. I've now switched my email account to my own domain

which seems to be more reliable.

I've tried Digest but find that I usually don't read the messages as

there is no preview to see. If I do read them, I get confused if

someone else on Digest doesn't delete it before replying. If I find

something really interesting on a Digest and reply to it, I don't

want to wait until the next day for the next exciting installment, so

I end up checking the messages on the website anyway.

That's how I do it!

One preference I have from others - to put their contribution at the

top of the post, and the reference from the post they are replying to

below it. That way, I can see the new post in the preview, rather

than just a repeat of what I have seen before. It's amazing how hard

it is to press one little key, LOL.

Joyce

[Guest guest]

One preference I have from others - to put their contribution at the

top of the post, and the reference from the post they are replying to

below it. That way, I can see the new post in the preview, rather

than just a repeat of what I have seen before. It's amazing how hard

it is to press one little key, LOL.<<

Just goes to show how different we all are - I much prefer it when

people put the post they are replying to first (preferably not the

whole post, just enough so you know what they are replying to) and

then you know exactly what it's all about before reading the latest

update.

Lorraine

Mum to 4

[Guest guest]

I'm a folders person too. When I used to have to pay for my online

time I used to download the emails, read, reply as I went but choose

" send later " . If I was feeling virtuous I would wait until the next

night when I'd download again and also send yesterdays replies. If I

was feeling extravagent I'd send all in one go just before I

disconnected.

Now my internet is free pms and w/ends I still do mostly the same, but

now I will always send before I turn off puter and I check (in

anticipation) once or twice in case there is new mail whilst I am

reading.

Because I read on digest, I've found it actually pays off to read all

the mail before you send all the replies as quite often something you

were going to say gets said in a later digest and I don't need to

bother sending and repeating the information.

Todman

Treasurer, Stansted Branch (R5)

Mum to , 3

[Guest guest]

> Just goes to show how different we all are - I much prefer it when

> people put the post they are replying to first

I always learnt to put the bit to which you are responding at the

top - and I much prefer it this way. If you do it any other way on

some newsgroups, you get a lot of hassle, as it is generally the

accepted way.

It is also easier to follow if someone is responding to a lot of

points in a long post.

As for how I read my mail - sorted into different folders, individual

emails - can't get on with digest at all. I sort in order of receipt,

read all the mails first, deleting those I know I don't want to reply

to. Then I go through again and delete all those I thought I might

reply to but someone else already has and reply to those I want to

reply to. Sometimes I don't have the time to do a detailed response

so I leave it in the in-tray for a few days, awaiting a good time.

More often than not the time doesn't arrive so I delete that too.

I'm using Outlook Express which I'm not fond of but it's the only

email software I have on this computer and I'm not going to start

fiddling and downloading things I don't know just to find I don't like

those much either.

--

Sue

[Guest guest]

Now my internet is free pms and w/ends I still do mostly the same, -

what package have you got at the moment - and was it uncomplicated to set up?

Caro

[Guest guest]

Now my internet is free pms and w/ends I still do mostly the same, -

what package have you got at the moment - and was it uncomplicated to set up?

Caro

[Guest guest]

Now my internet is free pms and w/ends I still do mostly the same, -

what package have you got at the moment - and was it uncomplicated to set up?

Caro

[Guest guest]

>I'm intrigued though, which internet service provider do

>you use (maybe yahoo?)? I forward all my yahoo emails to

my

>linone account which I can then read offline, or the phone

>line would never be free! Do you have a reason for not

>wanting an off-lineable account?

We currently have a Connect deal with NTL as they don’t yet

have the flat rate internet deal in our area. I tend to

connect a lot during the day, which isn’t covered by

Connect (it’s only for evenings and weekends), so the phone

bills are still pretty high.

I can read my emails offline, too, I just need to open them

all and then can use the forward and back buttons to

maneuver through them. It generally takes less than a

minute to log in to yahoo and open all the morning digests.

But I tend to check back in a lot and if I’m bored while

Calvin naps, I go to the web page and read everything new

that I haven’t had in digest yet... Then I write replies in

a Word document and send them all as quickly as possible,

which takes a minute or two as well.

I don’t *not* want an off-lineable account, but I have been

using yahoo for all my email for a few years, with moving

from country to country and ISP to ISP and find it very

convenient, plus I don’t automatically download viruses and

don’t clog up my tiny section of hard drive. I also am not

reliant on any more Microsoft ‘technology’ (like Outlook)

than necessary (though my DH thinks we should switch

completely over to Linux and I don’t mind staying with

Windows. The devil you know and all that).

Boringly yours,

Phyllis

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[Guest guest]

>Caro asked: Now my internet is free pms and w/ends I still do mostly

the same, - what package have you got at the moment - and was it

uncomplicated to set up?

I swapped from Tesco to LineOne. They seemed to be one of the

cheapest for their monthly charge £4 plus the extra £3 to have BT surf

together. Also its only 1p per min during the day, though I'm not

sure if the BT minimum call charge of 5p still applies.

I used to have Tesco as my best friend on friends & family (sad or

what). I've now changed that to my mum and tried to put the LineOne

number on the list for daytime use. Only it didn't work and the BT

lady said its a barred number as it's already discounted. Blimmin'

cheek if you ask me, what's the point in offering reductions on

frequently used numbers if they're not allowed. Ho Hum.

No it wasn't difficult to swap over. From the web site I clicked on a

down load thingy (sorry, but I'm not up with the techie stuff) and it

automatically set up a new connection in my Dial Up Networking

settings. The worse bit was getting yahoo groups to recognise the new

email address. I couldn't work out how to just replace one with the

other as the Tesco accounts seems indelibly linked to my Yahoo user

account. I did eventually work out how to send and receive egroup

stuff on the new account.

I've kept my Tesco email account and LineOne now downloads mail to me

on both my email addresses. They only thing I can't do connected to

LineONe is to send emails on the Tesco account. Not that I'd want to

particularly, but for eg I tried to unsubscribe to a newsletter from a

site that I registered with the Tesco address and so it sends it out

on the Tesco account. The only way to send that is to disconnect and

reconnect using Tesco, or not bother and unsubscribe online at the

relevant website.

Clear as mud, hey

Todman

Treasurer, Stansted Branch (R5)

Mum to , 3