Ian, I'm with you on this one. And this is particularly difficult when the poster doesn't include their name on the post anywhere -- which I've already seen numerous times. In order to make sense of a "conversation" which is what a message board thread is, we need to have a sense of who the "speakers" (i.e. posters) are. This new format removes all obvious clues as to who the "speakers" are, which from a discourse perspective, severely hampers the ability to follow a conversation. This severely limits the usefulness of a message board post being gatewayed to the paired mailing list. I'll give it some time, but I may decide that the only way to handle this is to turn off all the gateways for all lists and boards I manage. But that would make it more difficult to manage the boards because I currently rely primarily on gatewayed messages to clue me in to problematic posts on the boards I manage. I just wonder what is going to happen to all of those replies that get sent to gc-gateway@rootsweb.com due to clueless subscribers who don't realize they're trying to reply to a board message. I suppose it could be somewhat of a good thing if they all bounce back to the posters, which might FINALLY begin to teach some folks that the only proper way to reply to a message board post is to go to the message board directly..... Or if those replies that get sent to gc-gateway could end up going to the board.....who knows. -- Mary Original Message: ----------------- From: Ian Singer iansinger@sympatico.ca Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:38:47 -0500 To: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com, boards-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BAd] Message Board Update Announcement gc-gateway@rootsweb.com wrote: > >Valorie > > > > And the trouble with the format of this message is that it doesn't say anywhere who is writing it except for right at the end where it has a name. Also I hit reply and it's sending it to gc-gateway@rootsweb.com AND boards-admin@rootsweb.com and that can't be right unless one is going to be filtered out. Ian Singer -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .