bunsofaluminum

I don't get emails for this group, since it's so busy and fills my
inbox so fast. Instead, I come to the groups website and read, one
message after another. And, with every message, there is an ad. The ad
makes the formatting of the message difficult to read.

So, I may not be reading much. I'm going to try emails for a little
bit, but my online time is limited. Dunno how much participation
you'll see from me while I figure it out.

blessings, HeidiC

Danielle Conger

bunsofaluminum wrote:

>I don't get emails for this group, since it's so busy and fills my
>inbox so fast. Instead, I come to the groups website and read, one
>message after another. And, with every message, there is an ad. The ad
>makes the formatting of the message difficult to read.
>
>So, I may not be reading much. I'm going to try emails for a little
>bit, but my online time is limited. Dunno how much participation
>you'll see from me while I figure it out.
>
>

Heidi, try clicking on "messages" then on "expand messages" (on the
right side of the screen, I believe). This will allow you to read every
message one after the other without the ads.

Unfortunately, you can't use the "expand messages" function, as far as I
know, with the search function, which would allow one to read only
messages within a single thread. Anyone figure out how to do that yet?

--
~~Danielle
Emily (7), Julia (6), Sam (4.5)
http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html

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"With our thoughts, we make the world." ~~Buddha

Pam Sorooshian

On Apr 1, 2005, at 7:12 AM, bunsofaluminum wrote:

> I don't get emails for this group, since it's so busy and fills my
> inbox so fast. Instead, I come to the groups website and read, one
> message after another. And, with every message, there is an ad. The ad
> makes the formatting of the message difficult to read.

When you read on the website, you can click "Expand Messages." That
makes it much easier to read because there are no ads on the sides like
there are if you click through each individual message one at a time.
Plus, you don't have to wait for pages to load - a whole string of
messages appears on one page.

Or - get the digest version of the list. There will normally be from 1
to 3 or 4 digests in a day. If the list gets SUPER busy, maybe a few
more digests. That cuts down on the number of emails you get in your
mailbox. (You'll get all the messages, but they'll be combined into a
few emails.) This won't help if you have a space limitation.

This is all assuming that you don't have a mail program that lets you
automate putting your mail into folders, using a rule or filter of some
kind. That's the easiest way to handle large lists - because all your
mail goes to one place and most good email programs (Thunderbird, for
example) let you search a mailbox as well as put the messages in order
in different ways such as by date, by sender, by subject, and so on.
Heidi, you're using hotmail, so you can't do that, but Thunderbird is
free and you really might want to consider using it. Or look into
Google's mail program (GMail) - they now give you 2 gigs of storage
space - that's a LOT - your hotmail space is probably only 250 mb ---
so gmail gives you more than 8 times as much space.

-pam

mamaaj2000

We have Norton Firewall software on our PC and it has an ad blocking
feature! So I see the word "Advertisement" but that's it, most of the
time. Some ads sneak through occasionally.

--- In [email protected], "bunsofaluminum"
<bunsofaluminum60@h...> wrote:
>
> I don't get emails for this group, since it's so busy and fills my
> inbox so fast. Instead, I come to the groups website and read, one
> message after another. And, with every message, there is an ad. The
ad
> makes the formatting of the message difficult to read.
>
> So, I may not be reading much. I'm going to try emails for a little
> bit, but my online time is limited. Dunno how much participation
> you'll see from me while I figure it out.
>
> blessings, HeidiC

[email protected]

In a message dated 4/1/05 8:15:04 AM, bunsofaluminum60@... writes:

<< I don't get emails for this group, since it's so busy and fills my

inbox so fast. Instead, I come to the groups website and read, one

message after another. >>

Have you tried switching to digest?
If you do, please don't leave "Digest #20983409" as a subject line, though.

I just get e-mail and it's quick to read and you can delete all at the end of
the session, if you want to.

Sandra

Danielle Conger

Danielle Conger wrote:

>Heidi, try clicking on "messages" then on "expand messages" (on the
>right side of the screen, I believe). This will allow you to read every
>message one after the other without the ads.
>
>Unfortunately, you can't use the "expand messages" function, as far as I
>know, with the search function, which would allow one to read only
>messages within a single thread. Anyone figure out how to do that yet?
>
Yes, I'm now responding to myself.

I've been playing around with Yahoo this morning, and one of the new
features is the ability not only to "expand messages" but to group them
by "thread"--much cooler and easier to read online, imo. Unfortunately,
the search function still does not allow one to use either of these
tools when searching past messages.

--
~~Danielle
Emily (7), Julia (6), Sam (4.5)
http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"With our thoughts, we make the world." ~~Buddha