Today's STRANGE email alerts
Aug 11, 2010, 11:58 am
#1
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Today's STRANGE email alerts
1. There are many backslashes in the email version of what the referenced post in FlyerTalk says that are not necessary or part of the post itself.
2. The link is given as a second alternative way to access the thread -- "via your PC".
3. The linked post is not in the thread that the link leads to.
There are many of these, today.
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4. Also lots (inches) of vertical white space in some email alerts.
Comes across as a false start on a transition to giving priority to accessing subscribed posts via handhelds that might not have been tested out very thoroughly. Looks like it started today at about 2:00am US EDT.
2. The link is given as a second alternative way to access the thread -- "via your PC".
3. The linked post is not in the thread that the link leads to.
There are many of these, today.
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4. Also lots (inches) of vertical white space in some email alerts.
Comes across as a false start on a transition to giving priority to accessing subscribed posts via handhelds that might not have been tested out very thoroughly. Looks like it started today at about 2:00am US EDT.
Last edited by Firewind; Aug 11, 2010 at 12:23 pm Reason: #4 etc.
Aug 11, 2010, 1:17 pm
#2
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Location: Shanghai
Posts: 42,033
1. There are many backslashes in the email version of what the referenced post in FlyerTalk says that are not necessary or part of the post itself.
2. The link is given as a second alternative way to access the thread -- "via your PC".
3. The linked post is not in the thread that the link leads to.
There are many of these, today.
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4. Also lots (inches) of vertical white space in some email alerts.
Comes across as a false start on a transition to giving priority to accessing subscribed posts via handhelds that might not have been tested out very thoroughly. Looks like it started today at about 2:00am US EDT.
2. The link is given as a second alternative way to access the thread -- "via your PC".
3. The linked post is not in the thread that the link leads to.
There are many of these, today.
****************
4. Also lots (inches) of vertical white space in some email alerts.
Comes across as a false start on a transition to giving priority to accessing subscribed posts via handhelds that might not have been tested out very thoroughly. Looks like it started today at about 2:00am US EDT.
Aug 14, 2010, 1:37 pm
#3
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It resolved after a day or so.
Still wondering: Was it a false start by IB in shifting to making hand-held alerts the priority, and making PC email alerts secondary?
Thanks for whatever was done to fix the problem, and in advance for any answer to the lingering question.
Still wondering: Was it a false start by IB in shifting to making hand-held alerts the priority, and making PC email alerts secondary?
Thanks for whatever was done to fix the problem, and in advance for any answer to the lingering question.