Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam McCandless
<samcc@...> wrote:

I see what you're saying, Sam, thanks, that makes sense. However I am
participating in the group on the website, not through e-mail. I'm
slowly catching on however!

Regards,

Paul

> I believe, Paul, that threading is controlled (or not) by setting a  
> preference in your e-mail "client" (I guess it's a client of your  
> ISP's server). For example, on my Mac, that piece of e-mail software,  
> which is called "Apple Mail" or, internally, simply "Mail", will -  
> once set - begin to stack all the e-mails you get on a given subject,  
> so that you have them all together, although the ones you've already  
> opened are (optionally) obscured beneath the most recent one(s). And  
> your replies are interleaved. I _think_ all e-mail software does this  
> in essentially the same way but don't know what the non-Apple  
> providers call it. But I do think the use of the word "preferences"  
> for the settings might be generic. And, at least in Apple software,  
> the preference settings come near the beginning of the list of menu  
> items, at the opposite end from "help".
> 
> Hope this helps.
> --
> Sam
> 
> 
> On May 14, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Paul Whiting wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> > Many apologies everyone, Paul. both Scotts, Denis, and everyone else.
> > I'm feeling very dumb but I have had trouble navigating this group.
> > Consequently I found myself ignoring some answers to my questions -
> > not ignoring really, I just didn't see them because of they way
> > they were listed. Sometimes I'm sure I repeated questions because I
> > didn't see the answers. There seem to be several ways of viewing a
> > thread, and they're not always chronological. Sometimes I go to 'next
> > message' but it's the next message numerically not chronologically -
> > so then I find myself in a different thread.
> >
> > So I've taken some time trying to learn how these threads can be
> > viewed and I do believe I'm coming up with some answers - they were
> > there all the time. So, bear with me!
> >
> > I've been on various forums going way back to CompuServe but somehow I
> > found that a lot easier to navigate. I've looked at the help menus but
> > couldn't find much to help - can anyone recommend someplace on Yahoo
> > that gives a brief tutorial on these groups? Thanks!
> >>
> >> Scott,
> >> [snip]
>