On Sep 1, 2015, at 11:55 AM, Elizabeth McGurty [email protected] wrote:
Too existential for me… I just click the button…
All the best…
Liz
Liz, are you stuck in the G-jail web interface, or the web view of
Google G.? Your desktop mail app can connect to Gmail easily, and
this is a mailing list, first and foremost, and e-mail etiquette rules
apply!
Walter
I have no idea as to what you are saying. I offer solutions voluntarily
to
the best of my ability. I am visually impaired because I cannot afford
better eye glasses, so in response I write to wordpad and just respond.
Oh! Am I a bad girl because I don’t press the right buttons?
On 1 September 2015 at 20:10, Walter Lee D. [email protected]
wrote:
On Sep 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Elizabeth McGurty [email protected] wrote:
I have no idea as to what you are saying. I offer solutions voluntarily to the
best of my ability. I am visually impaired because I cannot afford better eye
glasses, so in response I write to wordpad and just respond.
Thanks again for your efforts to answer questions on this list. I do appreciate
it, and I am sure that others do as well.
+1 to that.
Liz, in case you are using the web interface to gmail, when you click
Reply you should see see three little dots in the bottom left of the
window (as your sight is impaired this may not be at all obvious, in
fact it is not at all obvious to those lucky enough to have good
eyesight). If you click the dots it will expand the previous message
so you can insert your reply at appropriate point(s).
Also, though likely you know this already, in the browser you should
be able to increase the text size using something like View > Zoom or
Ctrl +
Cheers
Colin
All the best…
Liz
Liz, are you stuck in the G-jail web interface, or the web view of Google
Groups? Your desktop mail app can connect to Gmail easily, and this is a mailing
list, first and foremost, and e-mail etiquette rules apply!
Walter
No disrespect meant here, Liz — seriously, you do good work and have
solved many problems for others on this list. I do not want to knock
anything about your input here.
What Colin is saying (and I am echoing) is that when you reply to an
e-mail, it is considered good “netiquette” to hit Reply, then move your
cursor to below the previous poster’s message body (or within it, if you
need to reply to multiple points within that message body) and insert
your reply inline with the part of the message you are replying to.
Since individual e-mail messages are normally read from top to bottom,
yet each message piles up at the top of your inbox list (or Google
Groups interface), there is a serious disconnect between what was asked
and what was answered. Keeping the order of the previous thread linear
within each message, like this:
[>>> Original question ]
[>> First reply ]
[> Follow-up question ]
[ Second reply ]
…maintains the flow of conversation and preserves context for those who
are reading this entire thread later, and will naturally start with the
last message first. Otherwise people have to scroll to the bottom and
read upward to gain any hope of understanding what the conversation is
about. It is also a good idea to snip out trailing auto-footers and
extraneous materials, but at a minimum, resisting the urge (or
technological imperative, in the case of Gmail’s poorly-designed quoting
tools) to top-post a reply should be considered the minimum. I realize I
don’t always do this properly myself, but I want to do better, and I
hope to help others understand the reasoning behind that as well.
Thanks again for your efforts to answer questions on this list. I do
appreciate it, and I am sure that others do as well.
Walter