to further fuel the "threaded viewing" discussion, here is the way GNUmail graphically supports threading -the only one nicer than MacSOUP: <http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail.data/screenshots/v1.2.0pre1/ gnumail-osx.png> I don't know wether it's good or bad for PM because I *didn't* try GNUMail.
I didn't yet make up my mind as concerns these stories of free-vs-open source-vs-"normally developped by small courageous teams" software; I suspect one of the obvious outcomes will be the latter category will be hit again (after surviving Apple's Mail)... Hervé > Well, I just counted all persons reacting to the idea of threading on > this forum for the last 15 months. > > On this very thread, we are seven, of which two declare threading of no > use. The five of us interested are you (Mirko), Alexander Balakersky, > Shane Stanley, Sean McBride (the OP) and me. > During the past year, there were three discussions where threading was > advocated; additional interested people were Jean de Crombrugghe, Mikael > Byström, Barbara Needham, and maybe Wayne Brissette (which post was > neither positive not negative). > > This totals to nine persons off this list, which is probably read by a > couple of hundred people (I counted 140 different addresses in the > "interesting posts" I keep from the same period of time). > > Ten out of two hundred is, well, 5% of PM users, maybe even less since > users not on this maillist could well be less demanding users. > > This is why, although frenetically supportive for threading here, I > switched to MacSoup for list handling. > > Indeed, I am quite sensitive to the idea that maillists are closer to > usenet groups than to mail. For this very reason many usenet newsreaders > propose to handle mail too, in a seamless way, and indeed the kind of > info handled in maillists is quite the same as in usenet newsgroups, > much more at least than in "personal" mails... > > > > What is now of interest, at least for me, is the becoming of info > sharing with new developing tools such as wikis, blogs and RSS. > I noticed recently for the first time a poster asking "my RSS newsreader > doesn't show usenet groups, why?" -something almost nobody would have > expected, and even understood, just one year ago :-) > Also, before selecting my own RSS newsreader I tried to list them: on > the mac platform only, there are more than twenty dedicated > applications, this not counting the RSS-enabled browsers and a large > variety of docklings and tickers*. As many as the mailreader apps on > mac, and maybe four times the number of usenet newsreaders. I even found > some of them mimicking completely... a mail client interface > (PulpFiction and MacFreePOPs) > > It may well be that the next threading-capable application on the mac > platform will be built around an RSS newsreader ;-) > > > Hervé > > (*) FWIW, my list is on > <http://sainct.ouvaton.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Mac/RSSforMac> -- remove ".listes" and add a dot after fh please enlevez ".listes" et ajoutez un point après fh
