Mirko Kranenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would too! As a matter of fact, I am already using Mail on my Cube.
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
