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

Sat Nov 2 00:02:28 UTC 2013

Hi Sheila. When you are ready to tackle face book you need to use
mfacebook.com.  This is the site that makes face book accessible to the
blind.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sheila Leigland
Sent: Friday, November 1, 2013 5:46 PM
To: NFB of Montana Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] Email Who uses what email software? And about our
discussion list

hi all that you are doing sounds promising and I'm looking forward to seeing
you next week in Maryland. I haven't figured out facebook yet but may
eventually do that. I've been known to lose pafocus when dealing with
technology if I get to overwhelmed but and getting better at it.See you
soon.
On 11/1/2013 5:37 PM, Rebecca Stewart wrote:
> 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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