RE: Too many extremely long posts and subject changes??

June 8, 2012

I tend to agree. While I love the group and the information dispensed, and

have no intention of unsubscribing - it's quite burdensome to not have

subject changes which reflect the contents of each post and also to have

each message go on and on.

I've not said anything before because I know I have all the freedom in the

world to delete, delete, delete and pass over, etc., but I also feel the

info being shared can be important and I want to get the benefit of it.

However, it's challenging to do so with such long posts and no real clue as

to whether I want to even read each one due to the same subject going on and

on and on when the subject itself took a hike a long while back.

Not intending to be negative, but I've not said anything for the past year

or so that I've been in the group, but felt like it was appropriate to speak

up now, since Suzanne opened the door with her post.

Thea

From: sproutpeople [mailto:sproutpeople ] On

Behalf Of suzanne36_lkn

Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 11:22 AM

To: sproutpeople

Subject: too many extremely long posts

Gotta go to no emails. Getting at least three digests so far today and its

only 11 am!! All these extremely long untrimmed posts or 'thanks for the

info' posts is filling up my inbox. Thanks for what good info is there

though, I'll catch it on the web page.

_,___

June 8, 2012

I don't get the daily digest for exactly that reason; I belong to other groups

on Yahoo and found I just couldn't keep up, particularly trying to scroll down

through repeated sections of messages just to get to the next message in the

digest. So I do sympathise.

This is a suggestion for those who find the digest all too much hard work (which

it is!).

I select to send individual emails to my inbox on my hotmail account. So that

they don't clog up my main inbox I have created a message rule and a folder

which I just called 'sprout'. All the individual messages from this group go

straight there. Days I don't have time to read them all, I can scroll through

the message titles and any of interest I open. Other days they all get deleted

as I know they are on the yahoo group page if I ever need to pick up a thread.

Otherwise I just work up the emails with the arrow function at the top right

hand of the message page. It's so easy to just skip through them that way. Today

I got through somewhere around 40 emails in about ten minutes, all the simple

comments were easily scanned and onto the next.

At the end of your reading or whenever you decide you've read all you want (or

not at all if you're busy), you can select the entire folder and delete them all

off.

You can easily open a hotmail account (or any of the other web broswer accounts

as they all have around the same functionality) and change your settings in your

membership page to send all emails there.

I do advise that people have a web browser free email address they can use in

anycase, for signing up to any website. It will stop your private email address

getting into the hands of spammers. If your hotmail (yahoo, aol etc) address

gets spammed, no sweat!

If anyone wants help in setting up a folder in hotmail you're welcome to email

me privately and I'll send you instructions

Charlotte

June 8, 2012