Broken email access to these forums - finally giving up

[p.f.moore]

I am sorry, but I am sick to death of the broken email interface to
these forums. Whatever anyone may say about "it works for me", the
current ill-formed emails with 2 From headers, completely breaks my
gmail filters. I am forever having to manually move emails from my
inbox, and often even the labels are not correctly applied. Maybe
gmail should handle multiple From headers better, but it doesn't, and
I'm tired of manually dealing with the results.

Furthermore, the fact that all emails now say they are from "JP
Software Forums" rather than the actual poster, makes it impossible to
follow the sense of a thread.

This issue has been going on for months, and has been the subject of
many complaints. I appreciate that attempting to fix broken forum
software is not the best use of Rex's time, but doing nothing is no
better. Even ditching the forum software and setting up temporary
lists on some free service like Google groups would be something.
Doing anything would at least give the message that JPSoft cares about
the views of its users.

So I'm afraid I'm leaving these groups. If things are fixed, I may be
back, but I'm not sure how I'd find out, so maybe I won't (I'll
probably keep an eye on the web interface for a short while, but I
don't expect to keep that up for long). I'm not exactly a major
contributor here, so probably no-one will really care, but I wanted to
make my position clear.

Paul.

 

[FoxWolfie]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:33:24 -0500, "JP Software Forums"
<neil@jpsoft.com>,"p.f.moore" <> wrote:

> This issue has been going on for months, and has been the subject of
> many complaints. I appreciate that attempting to fix broken forum
> software is not the best use of Rex's time, but doing nothing is no
> better.

It's been broken, nearly since they discontinued the newsgroup interface.
That used to work perfectly, as did the email at the time. Now, the
web-based forum appears to be the only choice. I don't have gmail, hotmail,
or any of the many free email accounts. I pay for a real ISP email account,
and prefer to use that over any sort of web-based junk. Sadly, the JP
Software Forums are useless in their current format. Everything appears to
be from the same user, regardless of the email software I use. Being
legally blind, simple text-based clients work the best for me, for the many
lists that I'm on, but not with this forum. I guess it's time that I leave
as well. I certainly can't recommend a broken forum to anyone. If not
knowing who messages are from isn't bad enough, there hasn't been much of
any useful material in here since the change to the new forum. :(

 

[ebbe]

I am sorry, but I am sick to death of the broken email interface to these forums. Whatever anyone may say about "it works for me", the current ill-formed emails with 2 From headers, completely breaks my
gmail filters.

RSS works, at least for new topics. That's how I discovered your post :)

 

[Rex Clark]

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[Rex Clark]

I did as the screen asked but i got eaten ..
replying between the lines eats the response.. was that expected ?




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