Hi Charlie, I'm not quite sure either what Kevin meant, but perhaps he is suggesting that you view the web page listed by topics and subject links? That is, the view you obtain if you use this version of the macvisionaries web page, with the topics argument as part of the URL: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/topics?hl=en
Specifically, if you visit the web page URL for the macvisionaries list at Google Groups that appears at the very bottom of each post, to go to the home page, if you use item chooser menu to go to the "View All" link and press it (VO-Space with a keyboard, or double tap on an iOS device), you'll be taken to a list of discussion by thread, which give a link to the subject, and a brief summary of the beginning of the post. The View format under the "Discussions" heading has a link to "Topic List" as an alternative format to the "Topic Summary" which contains the initial lines of the post. This is my reconstruction of Kevin's recommendation. Basically, in the topic list view mode, you'll find posts listed by thread, with columns indicating "Topic", "Rating", "Messages", "Author", and "Date". At the beginning of each of these threads you'll hear an initial marker where VoiceOver announces "Link, click the star to watch this topic". You can use VO-Space to mark topics of special interest to you. Basically, if you just add a "/" and then "topic" to the end of the regular Google Groups address you'll get the web page topic list view format that I believe Kevin was recommending. At this point you could use the web rotor to navigate to the topics by setting to "links" My personal opinion, if you're just reading the list for content, is that the secondary archives at the Mail Archive web pages are far nicer to use: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/ Since you refer to "auto web spots", I assume that you're using a current laptop or desktop Mac with TrackPad and keyboard. The really nice feature of the Mail Archive is that it is a far superior way to search for any item in the archives (by subject, author, wild cards, and date range if you like), and lets you read up and down threads with access key combinations that work for any browser/computer platform. I can find items ten times faster using the Mail Archive site than I can if I have to use Google Groups. (Basically, the search algorithms are so good that that I can find posted items in these archives faster than I can searching my own mailbox, because I can't specify separate fields (like author and date range or sort order) simply by typing a few commands in a text box -- and this works way better for me than the Google Groups pages.) > The default is to show posts with their subject links in threaded mode, most > recent threads listed first. You can change this to time ordered mode, > latest posts first, by using Control-i, and then use Control-b to read > earlier posts. Here are the access key combinations: > Control-n (Next) Later message by thread > Control-p (Previous) Earlier message by thread > Control-f (Forward) Later message by date > Control-b (Back) Earlier message by date > Control-i (Index) Chronological index > Control-c (Contents) Thread index > > For more information on the Mail Archive search options, see their Web site > FAQ: > http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#search If you search for related content, in the archive, you can read either up or down the thread where the post you found appeared using Control-p or Control-n, and so understand the context of the discussion. By default, only the most recent 3000 posts show up in the direct chronological or threaded listings, but your can search for any posts that were archived by typing search terms in the text box. You can also use wild cards like the asterisk to match variant spellings. The most recent posts won't be indexed in the search immediately, but they show up much faster than on the Google Groups site -- within a few hours, rather than several hours or half a day. The only thing that you can't do is post from the Mail Archive site, since it's an archive only. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 3, 2011, at 18:00, Charlie Bates wrote: > Hi Kevin > > I am not sure what you mean when you say "contracting the discussions > so all you see is the watching this topic star and thread subject > line" can you explain further please? > > Or can anyone else help? > > On Apr 4, 2:43 am, Kevin Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: >> Try using links combined with contracting the discussions so all you >> see is the watching this topic star and the thread subject line, but >> not the first lines of the post. >> Just my opinion. Works on a handheld box. >> Kevin >> >> >> >> Charlie Bates wrote: >>> Hi list >> >>> I am wondering what the best way to navigate mac visionaries is via >>> the web router? as in the best way to cycle through what discussions >>> are listed on the discussion page? is it through the "links" part or >>> the "Headers" or "auto web spots"? >> >>> Thanks >> >>> Charlie > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
