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Anonymous
April 23, 2009
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Blank posts on email replies

  • April 23, 2009
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Posted three times to the InDesign forum by email this morning and achieved three blank posts.

See: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1912606#1912606

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    Mark_A__Boyd
    Mark_A__Boyd
    Inspiring
    April 23, 2009

    Another reason I don't like slow Web forums. They seem to discourage people from scrolling down just a little bit or turning the page to see that the same question answered within just a few days or less (in relatively inactive forums like this one) or within minutes or hours in very active forums. I have yet to see one that searches as efficiently as dejanews.com searches NNTP newsgroups. Sure, the same thing happens in NNTP, but no where near as frequently.

    Subj: quoted replies via email turn up blank

    Date: Apr 20, 2009

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/422082?tstart=30

    Not necessarily a dig against you, Ken. It seems to be one of the banes of Web forums. I saw the same symptoms in the old FuseTalk forums (former Macromedia products).

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    Anonymous
    April 23, 2009

    No dig taken Mark. I'm on your side, which is why I want to get this wretched problem sorted, or at least to know what, if anything, I'm doing wrong.

    I've always watched my particular forum - InDesign - in my email client, at first OE and now Thunderbird. It would download threaded headers at regular intervals and I could skim all new posts and if need be read them in context with already read posts.

    I've got the new forum structure almost at that level - posts are unfortunately no longer threaded because, I guess, the unique indicator in each subject line is preventing Thunderbird from grouping them. But sorting them alphabetically goes part way there. They lose their chronological order of course because of ultimately sorting on the alphanumeric tag at the end of the subject. But if the post's of interest it's not difficult to make sense of it.

    The whole exercise is, however, nullified if I can't reply to a post confidently using the email reply. Having to go to the web browser - and possibly also sign in - each time is a waste of puff.

    k

    S_D_A_
    S_D_A_
    Inspiring
    April 23, 2009

    Forgive for mentioning this if you already know; But when using e-mail to respond to the forums one needs to put the reply at the very top before everything else. That bit me to the first couple of times bofore Zeno mentioned this to me. HTH

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    Anonymous
    April 23, 2009

    I'm replying to all the posts in exactly the same way. I'll post this again in an e-mail response and let's see what happens.

    k

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    April 23, 2009

    Can you see a reply here. Perhaps its just a problem in that particular forum.

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    Anonymous
    April 23, 2009

    Yes. I'm replying by email, so hoping this will show up too.

    k

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    April 23, 2009

    If it turns out there is a problem in the Forum, go to main menu locate General > Forum Comments.

    and report there. Then make sure you not subscribed to it. they have a runing fued going about the new forums style.

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