Drop-off, disappearance of postings

[OZmic]

Dear all,
2 of the people replying to my posts and I have experienced the disappearance of messages or replies to messages.
I lack experience and am not yet familiar with this forum but I think there could be a little "twicking" to improve the functioning. Normally one sends an e-mail, an answer comes back on top of the original, one answers back and so on. The original is there in the string only once at the bottom. The very last comment is on the top.

 Instead on the list of postings it seems that we carry a lot of info around and really all there is new to read is "thanks" or "by the way I thought of ..." leading to a new topic altogether.
Would it be more practical to initiate a topic, then exchange e-mails one to one or one to -say- 5 respondents. Once the discussion is completed we post the result on the forum. This would be mainly for text. Photos may introduce extra complications. With this process one would retain control of what is send / displayed and it would answer Usha di's concern of lost of control. I presume it would also lighten the load on the server and would result in a smoother presentation on line. What do you think?

[jmgarg1]

Thanks, Mic,

Actually nothing is in our control as far as technical part of Google groups (efloraofindia is part of it) is concerned.

We having using it for almost 5 years & are well conversant with its working now.

 

As far as getting replies to ones' post is concerned, it is sometimes very difficult because of voluntary nature of replies. Lot of resurfacing, thought, hard work etc. is required to get proper responses.

 

Thank you message are also very important for lot of members to feel some satisfaction & continue posting, though it can be sent only to the poster.  

 

Regarding "2 of the people replying to my posts and I have experienced the disappearance of messages or replies to messages.", pl. let me know about which threads you are talking.

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[OZmic]

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