[PRCo] Re: PRC Rt. 23

[Dwight Long]

Derrick

<<i promise you, they will never be passed through. Ever. The person who 
wrote
that support was very thorough in testing.>>  Obviously!

I appreciate the disadvantages you cite through the use of direct emailing, 
but they are very easily overcome (assuming the goodwill and follow up of 
the users).  As I have found to my sorrow, the disadvantage of ecartis is 
not overcomeable, at least not by someone who is not a computerhead--and 
assuming the everlasting truth of what you claim, perhaps never!

dwight


Obviously.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at gmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 3:57 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRC Rt. 23


> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
>>
>> List
>>
>> Well, I see that the dreaded ICKYCartis has done it again. In spite of my
>> best efforts to foil its evil ways by embedding the fots in the body of 
>> my
>> email, it is way too clever for this non-programmer and managed to pluck
>> them out of it and send them to photo purgatory.
>
> i promise you, they will never be passed through. Ever. The person who 
> wrote
> that support was very thorough in testing.
>
> Hi.
>
>> This is another example of a very skillful programmer who has managed to
>> provide an elegant solution to a non-existent problem,
>
> Just because you don't believe my explanation of the problem doesn't mean
> it wasn't true. The system is hosted for free for me, and I respect the 
> network
> of the host. You send in one file. It would send out N copies. Always. 
> Even
> if the person would never read it.
>
>> Fred, Dennis and I and maybe others on this list belong to another
>> rail-oriented discussion group which does not bother itself with list
>> servers.
>
> And then when someone changes email addresses, or wants out, they
> can't, because
> they say "stop copying me!" and unless everyone stops replying to any old
> mail in the thread, it doesn't work. If you like, I'll forward you
> just such a request from
> Russ Jackson and then the N more replies that went to his work address
> after he asked.
>
> So, just because it's not a problem *you* have...
>
>> Emails, which MAY contain photos, graphs, and the like, are sent
>> to a list of presumably interested recipients. Replies can be forwarded 
>> by
>> "reply all" and the list can be easily tailored to add or remove folks 
>> with
>> perceived interest or disinterest.
>
> Can be, based on the sender's idea of the receiver's interest.
> Well, I know my interest better than you. At least, I did when I got
> up this morning. I suppose I
> could reverify.
>
>> It works very well.
>
> Except when it doesn't.
>
>> Pittsburgh-railways at dementix is a great group but its mechanism is unduly
>> confining and frustrating.
>
> It's horrible. Except for all the other crappy things.
>
>
> -- 
> Derrick
>
>