On 25/gen/2010, at 11.39, Daniel James wrote:
> 2010/1/25 Davide 'Folletto' Casali <[email protected]>: >> >> I can just see the situation where you'll late on your mail and the last one >> contains something urgent, or has already solved the "situation" you were >> called to solve. > > I'm not sure about that, urgent emails could be anywhere in the > thread. Although, if you have some other means of identifying > interesting mails (such as the favourite posters suggestion), that > could be used to pick out mails for preview. Right. :) >> I know that there are two ways of reading unread messages: >> 1. from the last one backwards >> 2. from the earliest one onwards >> >> Mail clients simply solve this issue allowing message sorting (ascending or >> descending by date) and I know a few people of both camps. > > In a threaded view, all clients that I've used display the contents of > the thread in either thread order or chronological order, even when > sorting the mailbox in reverse order. I find it hard to see the appeal > of sorting the contents of a thread in reverse - I suppose it might > let you briefly glance at threads that you're not really following to > see if they've taken a more interesting turn. Yes it's a behavior related to standard mail clients and list views. However I understand your point. :) |D _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
