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

Fri Nov 1 23:37:44 UTC 2013

Hi Sheila. I don't think you can do text messaging on a computer.  I am
really growing to appreciate my laptop, now  that I'm learning to use it,
anyway.  The only thing I use my Iphone for now is calls and rarely text
messaging when I'm away from my computer.  I really enjoy face book so in my
free time I am spending a lot of time doing that. This week I've had very
little "free time" though.  I've been wrapping up my book, getting used to
the NFB serve list and persueing many of the issues we talked about at the
meeting lasdt weekend.  Dan said at the meeting that he wondered how we
could get a lot of people to the national convention in Orlando next July.
I am working on a plan I have in mind.  If it works out and won't be too
expensive, I will call Dan and see if it is kind of what he had in mind.  If
so, I will run it past Jim and see what he thinks.  I'm currently waiting
for a call back on the matter.     

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sheila Leigland
Sent: Friday, November 1, 2013 4:30 PM
To: NFB of Montana Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] Email Who uses what email software? And about our
discussion list

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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