Hi David, your list is very informative I really enjoy it and I will try to
make the next calling if possible. I also like anything that you tell us that
even gives us information that we wouldn’t otherwise no or else helps us in
someway.
Peggy Kane
Peggy Sent from my IPhone.
On Jul 4, 2018, at 12:26 PM, <martinelson1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
<martinelson1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, David: your articles are very interesting. Keep them coming!
From: David Goldfield
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2018 12:21 PM
To: blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Quick Updates
1. I wanted to wish all of you a happy and blessed Independence Day.
2. I have not forgotten about our phone meetings. Our next meeting is
scheduled for Friday, July 27 at 8:00 PM and is open to any questions or
comments relating to technology.
3. As always, please don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have comments
or questions regarding our group. If you have ideas for guest presenters or
if you feel you might want to present a particular product or service please
let me know about it. I would respectfully ask that any questions of a
technical nature about technology be directed publicly to the list at
blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and not to me privately. If your question
goes to the list other people can respond, especially since I often don't
have the time that I'd like to personally respond to emails. Also, the fact
is that I simply don't know everything and there are many on this list with
expertise on products or apps that I just don't have.
4. I'd be curious to know if this mailing list is meeting your needs and, if
not, what could be done to have it do so? As an example, are the articles
that I send out of value or would you prefer the list to just be dedicated to
discussion without the articles? If you do like reading articles, are there
topics you'd like to see more of or less of?
5. Depending on which email program you use you may have to perform a "reply
all" if you want your replies to a message to be sent to the list. A few
months back Thunderbird made an annoying change which meant that pressing
ctrl+R to reply to a list message would send your reply to just the original
sender and not to the list. One workaround for this is to press ctrl+shift+R
(for Reply All) which should guarantee that you reply will go to the list.
There is a slightly more technical workaround which can force Thunderbird to
revert to the older and, in my opinion, more preferred way where just
pressing ctrl+R sends a reply from a mailing list to the entire list, which
is, I think, what most people expect. Off the top of my head I don't remember
the exact set of steps I used to adjust this setting but, if you run into
this issue, let me know and I'll try and post them. I think users of Outlook
should be OK but I can't speak for other email programs.
6. As always, if you know someone who could benefit from this list don't
hesitate to provide them with the information on how to join the list. To
subscribe, the email address is
blind-philly-comp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
In the subject type
subscribe
and then send the message.
There are just so many mailing lists out there dealing with various types of
assistive technology and, to be frank, I'm wondering if this list is still
relevant. Initially, I started this as a group for people in or near the
Philly area because it was my assumption that a city as big as Philly needed
a support group for visually impaired computer users. That still may be the
case but I'm just trying to ascertain this. You can be as honest as you want
to about this as I don't have an ego when it comes to this group. If it's
meeting people's needs then it will continue. If it isn't I have no problem
in seeing it go away because, as I said, there are many discussion groups
dealing with technology both in general and lists dedicated to a specific
product.
Take care.
--
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com
