Re: Best Practice to not Hijack Threads was Re: best practices for managing contacts across iphone and laptops

2016-09-26 Thread Monica Jones 
Alan, thank you for explaining this. Sometimes I’ve been guilty of deleting the 
original subject but leaving in the body. This makes sense to me; I just 
haven’t thought of it before.
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From: Alan Lemly 
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:43 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com 
Subject: Best Practice to not Hijack Threads was Re: best practices for 
managing contacts across iphone and laptops

Robin,

I can't answer your question but I'd kindly ask you to please not reply to an 
existing message and then delete the subject and message body as if you were 
starting a new thread. This is called thread hijacking and though it might 
appear to you as if you've started a new post, there are hidden links to the 
previous thread that ties your new subject post to it. However, those of us who 
read this list by thread will see your subject but the other five messages in 
the thread will be about the subject you hijacked. 

I noticed that you hijacked two different threads and wanted to explain this so 
you could avoid it in the future. 

To start a new thread, you need to create a brand new message as opposed to 
replying to an existing one and deleting its content. 

Thanks. 

Alan Lemly 

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 22, 2016, at 12:16 PM, R Van Lant <vanlant2...@msn.com> wrote:



  Curious for best practices with managing and synching contacts across my 
iPhone and windows based computers where I use Outlook to read mail and manage 
email contacts. Until now, I would occasionally add phone numbers to my phone 
directly.  After I started including my work Outlook account on my phone, my 
work contact would be visible, so I found it easier to add and edit contacts on 
my work laptop in Outlook knowing they would show up in my phone.  This is 
great until the day that I no longer work at my company -- which I am not 
currently planning.  Before my home laptop died this summer, I had personal 
contacts in Outlook on my home computer, but only used that for capturing 
emails.  When my laptop died, I had to have my iPhone pull in my Hotmail 
contacts so that I could reach people.  Now I see that I have cases where I had 
entered a phone number in my phone, but there is a second entry in Contacts 
from where an email address pulls in from Hotmail.  If I combine those two in 
my phone, does that mean that I would no longer have access to the email 
address from Outlook on my personal computer? Or, is the best practiced to go 
back and move the phone number entry into the entry that comes over from 
Hotmail so that I maintain the entry in places via the Hotmail link to my 
iPhone?  If the recommendation is to always enter new contacts on the laptop, 
what do you do when you are on the go and have a new phone number to add?  

  Robin



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Re: Best Practice to not Hijack Threads was Re: best practices for managing contacts across iphone and laptops

2016-09-25 Thread R Van Lant 
Thanks, Alan, for explaining what I had unknowingly done with the hijack and 
for your input to my question.  I didn't realize about the hidden links so 
thougth this was a good way to grab the group email address since I'd lost it 
in my contacts.



On 9/22/2016 11:43 AM, Alan Lemly wrote:
Robin,

I can't answer your question but I'd kindly ask you to please not reply to an 
existing message and then delete the subject and message body as if you were 
starting a new thread. This is called thread hijacking and though it might 
appear to you as if you've started a new post, there are hidden links to the 
previous thread that ties your new subject post to it. However, those of us who 
read this list by thread will see your subject but the other five messages in 
the thread will be about the subject you hijacked.

I noticed that you hijacked two different threads and wanted to explain this so 
you could avoid it in the future.

To start a new thread, you need to create a brand new message as opposed to 
replying to an existing one and deleting its content.

Thanks.

Alan Lemly

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 22, 2016, at 12:16 PM, R Van Lant 
> wrote:


Curious for best practices with managing and synching contacts across my iPhone 
and windows based computers where I use Outlook to read mail and manage email 
contacts. Until now, I would occasionally add phone numbers to my phone 
directly.  After I started including my work Outlook account on my phone, my 
work contact would be visible, so I found it easier to add and edit contacts on 
my work laptop in Outlook knowing they would show up in my phone.  This is 
great until the day that I no longer work at my company -- which I am not 
currently planning.  Before my home laptop died this summer, I had personal 
contacts in Outlook on my home computer, but only used that for capturing 
emails.  When my laptop died, I had to have my iPhone pull in my Hotmail 
contacts so that I could reach people.  Now I see that I have cases where I had 
entered a phone number in my phone, but there is a second entry in Contacts 
from where an email address pulls in from Hotmail.  If I combine those two in 
my phone, does that mean that I would no longer have access to the email 
address from Outlook on my personal computer? Or, is the best practiced to go 
back and move the phone number entry into the entry that comes over from 
Hotmail so that I maintain the entry in places via the Hotmail link to my 
iPhone?  If the recommendation is to always enter new contacts on the laptop, 
what do you do when you are on the go and have a new phone number to add?

 Robin


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RE: Best Practice to not Hijack Threads was Re: best practices for managing contacts across iphone and laptops

2016-09-22 Thread Tony 
Thanks for this.  I’ve seen messages about hijacking threads but didn’t know 
this was what was meant.

 

I always thought it was about messages that kept the same subject line but were 
about something else.

 

I’m sure I have done it in the past.

 

Tony

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Alan Lemly
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:44 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Best Practice to not Hijack Threads was Re: best practices for 
managing contacts across iphone and laptops

 

Robin,

 

I can't answer your question but I'd kindly ask you to please not reply to an 
existing message and then delete the subject and message body as if you were 
starting a new thread. This is called thread hijacking and though it might 
appear to you as if you've started a new post, there are hidden links to the 
previous thread that ties your new subject post to it. However, those of us who 
read this list by thread will see your subject but the other five messages in 
the thread will be about the subject you hijacked. 

 

I noticed that you hijacked two different threads and wanted to explain this so 
you could avoid it in the future. 

 

To start a new thread, you need to create a brand new message as opposed to 
replying to an existing one and deleting its content. 

 

Thanks. 

 

Alan Lemly 

Sent from my iPhone


On Sep 22, 2016, at 12:16 PM, R Van Lant <vanlant2...@msn.com> wrote:

Curious for best practices with managing and synching contacts across my iPhone 
and windows based computers where I use Outlook to read mail and manage email 
contacts. Until now, I would occasionally add phone numbers to my phone 
directly.  After I started including my work Outlook account on my phone, my 
work contact would be visible, so I found it easier to add and edit contacts on 
my work laptop in Outlook knowing they would show up in my phone.  This is 
great until the day that I no longer work at my company -- which I am not 
currently planning.  Before my home laptop died this summer, I had personal 
contacts in Outlook on my home computer, but only used that for capturing 
emails.  When my laptop died, I had to have my iPhone pull in my Hotmail 
contacts so that I could reach people.  Now I see that I have cases where I had 
entered a phone number in my phone, but there is a second entry in Contacts 
from where an email address pulls in from Hotmail.  If I combine those two in 
my phone, does that mean that I would no longer have access to the email 
address from Outlook on my personal computer? Or, is the best practiced to go 
back and move the phone number entry into the entry that comes over from 
Hotmail so that I maintain the entry in places via the Hotmail link to my 
iPhone?  If the recommendation is to always enter new contacts on the laptop, 
what do you do when you are on the go and have a new phone number to add?  

 Robin

 

 

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