[Nfbmt] Email Who uses what email software? And about our discussion list

[Sheila Leigland]

I've been using thunderbird. Right now I'm having trouble seeing who 
emails are brom fut don't know if it's my program or a wrong setting on 
my computer.
On 11/1/2013 12:29 PM, Rik James wrote:
> Hello list members.
>
> I am curious.
> What software do each of you use for your email?
>
> Some folks may use Outlook. Some may use Windows Live Mail. Some may 
> actually just use their internet browser and use webmail. Some folks 
> may use something else.  And do you maintain a list of Contacts within 
> your email program?
>
> I am starting a discussion on something else besides the NFB of 
> Montana business here. But it is also useful I think if we share 
> information and learn from each other so we can each know more about 
> all of the various things we use to communicate. I can think of a 
> variety of topics along those lines I'd like to discuss with us, or 
> with others.
>
> There maybe also other discussion lists that you might like to share 
> with us.
> If so, please provide the name of the list, what the list talks about, 
> and the way to subscribe to it.
>
> I know lots of you are using the new types of phones now, too. I have 
> not yet gotten anything going on that. But maybe I will soon enough.
> The whole Apple versus Android thing, and my reading of it, it always 
> keeps me in a limbo land of indecision. That,  plus wondering what I 
> can and would want to spend on a monthly basis on a phone.
>
> Oh. I use Windows Live Mail 2011 for my personal email. I have several 
> email addresses. I manage my email according to using an email address 
> for specific types of communications and things I do. The 
> montanarikster at gmail.com is the email address I use for this list. As 
> well as some other lists. Other email addresses I may use for other 
> things like my radio and concert stuff. I have one that I use for 
> politics, too. It keeps me able to kind of pre-sort things. Windows 
> Live Mail puts all of those accounts in a Tree View, so I can go to 
> each of the accounts and then TAB over to the Inbox in that account.
>
> I use WLM 2011 while using my JAWS screen reading software and a 
> little bit of my remaining eyesight. It works pretty well, but there 
> are things that it may not read, like who the email is from. So I will 
> need to use the JAWS cursor for that.
>
> I wonder if any of you have trouble seeing or hearing who an email is 
> from, also.
>
> You know if it is from this NFB of Montana Discussion list, it is 
> being delivered to many others who may or may not be participating in 
> the discussions that are held there. And when you hit Reply to that 
> message it goes to all of those who are subscribed to the list.  This 
> list is also called a Listserve. That is just a computer style of 
> email list, as I understand it. I think that this list is administered 
> by the NFB organization David Andrews, and our NFB Montana list 
> moderator or List Mom as they like to call it, is still Dan Burke.
>
> Okay. Thanks for listening. And I hope what I typed up above made some 
> sort of sense. It is a crazy Friday here. And with baseball season 
> over, you just never know who is going to catch those foul balls that 
> keep coming this way, now do you? But I will keep my glove handy and 
> mustard in stock.
>
> Thanks.
> Rik James
> Bozeman, Montana.
> 12:44 p.m. 44 degrees. Partly cloudy, partly sunny, and breezes out of 
> the South and East.
>
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