[pianotech] New List

[Terry Beckingham]

None of this stuff was required on the old list. Also it was easy to send 
attachments. They came with the post to the lists and could be opened 
immediately without having to go to the web, log onto the new list and 
download them before viewing. That is a giant step backwards.

Terry Beckingham

At 11:00 AM 10/24/2011 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi old list -
>
>I saw Ron's and Al's posts on the new list, they seem to have posted
>fine.  I've been using the new list and it seems to be fine.  Here's
>how I do it:
>
>Go to the my.ptg page.  Go to the discussions heading (near the top,
>just under the title my.ptg), it's a pull-down menu.  Go to the last
>item, Manage Subscriptions.  There you'll see a list of all the many
>discussion lists that are in existence.  In the wild enthusiasm that
>greeted the initial roll-out of the new site, lots of people set up
>lists that dealt with the various minutiae of piano work, but now that
>the dust has settled, they're all inactive except for the ones that
>existed before, CAUT and Pianotech.  (Yeah, every once in a while
>someone posts on another one, but it's an anomaly.)  There are also
>the non-piano work related lists, PTG-L (members only) and User Help
>Group.
>
>There are some options for how you receive the postings.  Look at the
>list you want, and check the bubble that pertains - real time means
>you get an email everytime someone posts, just like many of us did
>with the old lists.  Daily Digest, self explanatory.  Legacy, not
>exactly sure.  I checked "No Emails" for every discussion, which means
>that I'm subscribed but my inbox doesn't get clogged.  Instead, I go
>to the myptg page, click on the pull-down menu "Discussions", then
>click on the first selection, "All Discussions".  Then, depending how
>often I visit the page, I find the little baby-blue box called "Quick
>Links", and click on "Last 24 Hours", or Last 7 Days", or whatever.
>Then, you don't have to dig through all the various discussions, it'll
>just show you what's happened recently.
>
>If I don't get bashed, and you seem interested, I'd be glad to go over
>how to post and attach pictures, etc.
>
>All the best,
>Zeno