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

Fri Nov 1 22:30:27 UTC 2013

hi becca that is why I'm not interested in an iphone and use my laptop 
exclusively. I know nothing about texting and don't even know if you can 
do that on a computer. I'm also not wild about paying more money for a 
data plan.
On 11/1/2013 3:31 PM, Rebecca Stewart wrote:
> Hi Rick.  I use Outlook 2013. I have email capabilities on my I phone and I
> use them very rarely.  Here's why I choose not to do email on my phone
> unless I have no choice, perhaps this will give you some idea what it is
> like doing email on a smart phone before you invest in purchasing one.  I
> find it very tedious typing an email on my I phone because you have to hit
> each tiny key on the screen three times when using voice over and this takes
> forever.  You can dictate emails but the message often reads differently
> than what you intended to say.  I am actually so sick of doing face book and
> email on my I phone that I am learning to use my lap top which I bought just
> so I could have mobile access to face book and email with out having to use
> my I phone.  This is how frustrating I found the I phone to  be.  The I
> phone is really handy for text messaging and I love the talking caller ID,
> talking contact list, everything talks and easy to understand but there are
> just those other issues.  I hope I've helped.
> Becca
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rik James
> Sent: Friday, November 1, 2013 12:29 PM
> To: NFB of Montana Discussion List
> Subject: [Nfbmt] Email Who uses what email software? And about our
> discussion list
>
> 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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