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Friday, August 04, 2000, 9:28:11 AM, eric wrote:
> why are people so fearfull of just the slightist change??
It isn't about being feaful of change. It isn't even about being
fearful. It's about preference and making changes that few actually
*need* that inconvenience many.
My configuration for Email is still reading under Win98, using an
Email package called "The Bat!". In it, since I bought it, I have been
filtering on sender, recipient, subject, etc. and putting incoming
messages into mail folders based upon category. All the categories
show up on the left side of my window, and are bold font if unread
messages are inside. On the right side of the window is information
for each message in the selected folder, like From, To, Subject, etc.
Each column is a fixed width (although changeable on a per-folder
basis), so adding (for example) "[RHL] " to the start of each subject
line means that much less "real" subject is visible in the window.
Since I get so many messages related to Linux mailing lists each day,
the most I can reasonably do is scan the Subjects to see if anything
looks particularly useful or relevant to my situation. The more
information is in the Subject area, the better my decisions as to what
is worth reading will be. That is true whether we are talking about
automated systems adding junk to the beginning, or people who create
subject lines on a Linux list like "help me" or "novice question".
Email systems that all message sorting on fields other than Subject
are quite common and have been around for quite a while.
Someone mentioned that a reply to one of his messages that goes
directly to him might not be caught in a filter on fields related to
the list. I guess that's so. But for me, that would be a *good* thing.
If someone sends a message to me explicitly, I want it to show up in a
different mailbox (that gets looked at more often and with more care)
than the stuff that gets lumped into various mailing list folders and
gets a subject line scan when I have some time or need a break (as at
this particular moment, where I have managed to get "caught up" to
messages of a week ago).
Ron.
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