All posts in the topic Putting Messages Into Context (Short link)

From: Tim Erickson Date: Apr 17 17:43 UTC Short link

On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:54 AM, K Williams wrote:
> Don't get me going on Xcel!  I actually have one of their high power
> transmission lines running through my back yard (and it was a bone
> of contention with them 2 years ago because they took out a tree
> that was not in any way a threat to the tower).
>
> This topic's messages may be viewed at:
>    http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/X3KgqA6NB2ZUzJqwELMQD

Welcome to the forum Kris. Glad that you've joined in and contributed
some of the ongoing topics in the forum. This forum gets its life from
the individual members who take the time to comment on other peoples
posts and ask questions of other members.

At least one member of the forum contacted me, because they were
confused about the context of the two topics that Kris commented on
this morning. "Electrical Service" and "The Chipotle Gap." For web
users, its pretty obvious that these are "dormant" topics in the forum
that have not been commented on for a while. However, for our email
users, the connection is less obvious.

Yes, both of these posts were additions to fairly old topics in the
forum. One way to put a message like this into context (for email
users), is to find the link at the bottom of every message that says
"This topic's messages may be viewed at:" A click on this link, will
take you back to the entire topic - regardless of how old the topic is.

I think its great to have a topic like "The Chipotle Gap" resurrected
after being dormant for over a year. This was a topic that I started
in January of 2007 and Kris's comment, was in direct response to a
post by Paul "Wog" Kuettel. For Kris's sake and anyone else who is
unaware, Paul actually passed away this last year (see Topic in St.
Paul Issues Forum):

   http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/35ytcBTwKo4acGF6d72Qhd

Keep on posting Kris! NOTE - Activity in this forum has been a bit
lethargic. See last months totals as compared to the average monthly
totals from last year:

                            March  12 Month Ave.  April (So Far)
                            2008        2007         2008
                           -------    --------     -------
   Posts / Month             10          41           10
   Posters / Month            8          17            7
     (Individuals who
      post at least once)

Let's see some posts to bring this forum alive!!!!

See:  http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/roseville-issues/stats.html

Best wishes,

Tim Erickson
E-Democracy.Org