IDEA: CHANGE SUBJECT LINE WHEN TOPIC CHANGES

[Guest guest]

These suggestions were made by a savvy message board member, and I

think they will help us follow the discussions better.

Change the subject line when the topic changes. The reason is

twofold: first, for those who receive the daily digest, they pick

topics they want to read more about and click on them and it's

disappointing when the topic has long since changed. Secondly, for

people who read the messages from the website rather than get emails

in their inbox, it can get frustrating when the subject doesn't match

the topic, and there is a whole thread of emails with that subject

line that doesn't pertain to that subject. For instance, in the case

of the subject email thread about the newest fibro commercial, the

topic has completely changed.

Also, another thing we can do is delete the post we are replying to

(or at least most of it), because when people leave one or more

original messages at the end of their new message, it makes for a lot

of repetition and a very long email to wade through for those getting

the digest.

Sometimes it's better to create a new email rather than hit reply.

I am a newbie to having a message board, but these suggestions seem

good to me. What do you all think? Will this work better for

us? I know (our wonderful moderator) mentioned the

advantages and disadvantages of the Daily Digest recently, so if some

of this info has been covered already, please excuse.

I am really enjoying the posts!

Dominie

[Guest guest]

Dominie,

I think this is just a wonderful idea!

I choose to do the digest method of receiving posts and it a very

cumbersome email to say the least.

Quite often I find myself simply deleting the entire thing, rather

than wade through the numerous lonnnnnnnng forwarded and quoted posts.

While there is a benefit to keeping the original post in place, it

does not need to be repeated a dozen times with everyones reply.

Thanks for this idea to improve the board and of course for all you do

for all of us.

Thai

[Guest guest]

I think erasing everything below the original post would be useful. Sometimes the context of the post is an answer and without the original post, no one can remember the question. Or at least I can't.

Pam

Re: IDEA: CHANGE SUBJECT LINE WHEN TOPIC CHANGES

Dominie,I think this is just a wonderful idea!I choose to do the digest method of receiving posts and it a verycumbersome email to say the least.Quite often I find myself simply deleting the entire thing, ratherthan wade through the numerous lonnnnnnnng forwarded and quoted posts.While there is a benefit to keeping the original post in place, itdoes not need to be repeated a dozen times with everyones reply.Thanks for this idea to improve the board and of course for all you dofor all of us.Thai

[Guest guest]

Copy & pste the subject line abnd make a new post for a reply is simp

[le too. If we wilnot overload the baord. some we do some we donot. But

I think erasing it will work well too. Hugs heidi

[Guest guest]

Pam, I agree about leaving some

of the original post on the email you are responding

to so people remember what the question/comment was. One solution I use

is to keep just a portion of the original post at the end of my email, like

this:

---original

message - pam wrote -----

I think erasing everything below the original post would be useful. Sometimes the context of the post is an answer and without

the original post, no one can remember the question. Or at

least I can't.

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In this case, I started a new email because I use digest and by hitting

reply to group, it doesn’t give me the option of

deleting the previous message. So I use the same subject line and copy the part of the into my

new email.

Shari Ferbert

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