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   J. P. Gilliver (John) to All   
   Re: Problem with Ancestry Messaging   
   25 Feb 21 21:49:25   
   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 21:08:59, Jenny M Benson    
   wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):   
   >Don't know if this will apply to anyone else, but mentioning it just in   
   >case.   
      
   Thanks.   
   >   
   >I tried to send someone a Message via the Ancestry messaging service   
   >and my message just didn't seem to be going anywhere.  I'd press Send   
   >and the message area would clear and a few moments later my message   
   >re-appeared and there was nothing showing in the list of correspondence   
   >the left of the screen.  Tried several times, same result.   
   >   
   >Went back and tried to send a message to a different person.  Same   
   >result.  Then I clicked on the ... next to the Send button and changed   
   >the selection from "Click Send" to "Press Enter to Send."  I then   
   >pressed Enter and sure enough the message was sent!   
   >   
   It seemed to work OK for me just now - at least, something happened.   
      
   I find the messaging system extremely irritating:   
   1. You can't send attachments.   
   2. It turns "(" and ")" into "(" and ")".   
   3. The up and down arrows mostly don't work - I have to pull the "thumb"   
      
   But worst   
   of all, 4. it   
   has started   
   to work (as   
   of sometime   
   last year I   
   think) in a   
   very narrow   
   vertical   
   column, I   
   presume so it   
   looks like a   
   'phone. NOT   
   ALL OF US USE   
   A 'PHONE TO   
   ACCESS THE   
   INTERNET, and   
   having to   
   scroll up and down a lot to read even the shortest message is extremely   
   irritating. (I've told them so, but of course, they don't even   
   acknowledge feedback, despite continually asking for it.)   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   "To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition." - Woody Allen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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