On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:23 AM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >> Mail isn't naturally multi-threaded. It's not a discussion, it's a >> timeline. > > of course it is a discussion, and the timeline approach fails as the > discussion branches
I disagree. > > a beauty of email is that the discussion need not be linear -- When a message-response thread goes non-linear, people should change the subject to indicate that it is off on a different topic. As I just did. Otherwise the whole point of a mail thread becomes irrelevant. > no i don't want that -- it was just one example of how touching a message is > not the same as reading it; there are several practical implications and > also a principle at work here When glance at a bunch of messages and skim them, I *want* them to be marked read. I flag (command-shift-L) the ones I will go back to that I think might be important to prioritize. What you want is a preview that doesn't change the state. > i'll resist the standard "Apple makes only one flavor" reply and ask is an > email client a flavor of ice cream, or is it an ice cream shop, or what? how > about if food had a preferences menu item, and if you didn't like something > about it you could change it as you ate it -- too salty, dial it down / > needs more chocolate chips ... Apple provides one Mail client and gives it to you free. You can download several dozen others free or commercial. Whatever else you are trying to imply with your question I don't have the energy to engage as a debate. ;-) Remember: I work for Apple as a contractor right now, and was an employee there for a decade and a half. A lot of what Apple does ... I had a hand in setting some of the policies. So there's no use debating my opinion. ;-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
