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Bill,
I guess I missed your previous post. I don't want to omit all pictures, there are just certain topics, turbo's for example, that I am not interested in. I cannot select the ones I want to download because I have no idea what is being downloaded by my computer until it is completed. I get approx. 50-60 emails a day. If 10 of them contain pictures I go eat dinner while waiting for the download to complete. This problem is enhanced when topics are changed but the subject line is not, a problem that has already been pointed out.
The separate site for pictures on the biplane site works very well as all the pictures are archived from the last 3 years and are available whenever we want to review them. I just thought I would mention it as we seemed to be discussing ways to make this site more user friendly.
Randy
On Nov 9, 2004, at 11:07 AM, Bill Dube wrote:
You don't have to download ANY pictures if you don't want to. See my previous post.
At 10:54 AM 11/9/2004 -0500, you wrote:
I am one that is land line dependent and have my computer tied up for 20-30 minutes down loading pictures. I belong to a biplane builders group that has a separate site just for pictures. We just inform the group they are available and we can pick and choose what we want to see and when. Might be a good idea here as there seems to be lots of pictures/charts/diagrams etc.
Randy
On Nov 9, 2004, at 7:57 AM, Jack Beale wrote:
All,
My Vote:
• New message at the top - avoids a ton of scrolling around to read the relevant information.
• Trim old messages to just the salient point answered.
• Change the subject to match the new thread.
Jack Beale
----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Duffy
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 8:31 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Suggestion!
The suggestion is to answer all threads at the END of the mail and not at the beginning like most e-mail programs will set you up to do. If it is a long thread, like the present EWP one, it gets quite old to scroll forth and back and stay sync with the order of answers given!:(
Actually, our favorite list provider (Marvin) has a pet peeve too. He has asked on many occasions that we NOT continue to quote old messages. He would like us to only quote a relevant piece of the message. Since he archives this stuff for us, it would save a bunch of disc space. Sometimes when I see multiple messages quoted within a single message, I just imagine Marvin beating his head against the keyboard :-)
I personally like colors (as you may have noticed), because it makes it easy to see the new text.
As for the subject abuse, that's been mentioned before. I don't really recall anyone violating that today. It's hard for me to imagine having to live with only dial-up these days. If it were my only option, I'd spend the food budget on semi-high speed from DirecTV for $99/mo. Just too dependent on internet.
Cheers,
Rusty (typing slowly for Bernie's dial-up <g>)
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