Numbers and square brackets in subject?
Hello all, I have chosen to "View threads by subject", and a thread may look like this: Text Re: Text Re[2]: Text Re: Text Re[2]: Text Re[3]: Text What does the numbers in square brackets mean? Maybe I am stupid, but I just can't figure this out. Anyone who have some time to spare to explain this for a TB-novice? TIA -- Best regards, Jan-Arild Using The Bat! 1.39 under Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998 on a Pentium II 300 with 64MB. -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re: Numbers and square brackets in subject?
Hi Jan-Arild, On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:30:49 +0100GMT (10/03/00, 16:30 +0800GMT), Jan-Arild Løkstad wrote: JAL What does the numbers in square brackets mean? They are generated by TB when you reply to a mail. Somebody thinks this is good. So, the replies are not numbered when you receive them, but the sender's TB already put them in there. Everybody can disable this feature by putting the marco %SINGLERE into the Reply template. I have this macro in my reply templates. JAL Maybe I am stupid, I don't think so. ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.41 Beta/5a under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998 on a Pentium II/350 MHz. -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re: Numbers and square brackets in subject?
Hello Jan-Arild, On Friday, March 10, 2000 at 09:30:49 GMT +0100 (which was 12:30 AM where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello all, I have chosen to "View threads by subject", and a thread may look like this: Text Re: Text Re[2]: Text Re: Text Re[2]: Text Re[3]: Text What does the numbers in square brackets mean? It is TB's way of telling you how many replies have been made. So Re[2]: would be the second reply in a string of communications. TB does this instead of the ugly Re:Re:Re:Re:(ad infinitum)... format that some other mailers use. Some of us on the list don't like this option, so we turn it off by using a Template macro, %SINGLERE, in our reply templates. It is kind of handy to have when you're communicating in a logical tennis type of dialogue. (By tennis type dialogue, I mean one where only one person will reply to a given message.) But this breaks down quickly when threads start branching. Plus some people suppress the feature, which makes the number [n] even less informative. Also, not all mailers recognize this format, and so you might get replies that have Re:Re[3]:. If you reply to one of these, TB is smart enough to put in Re[5]:. The %Singlere macro only strips the [5] from your reply, so TB is still smart when it comes to some weird subject formats. So take this information as you wish, just remember that the way it is implemented you turn off this feature in the templates. This means you can set it up for your correspondence to your loved ones, and not in your mailing list correspondence, or vice versa. You just need to set up individual folder or address book templates accordingly. -- Thanks for writing Januk Aggarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! 1.41 Beta/5 under Windows 98 4.10 Build A -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re: Numbers and square brackets in subject?
Hello Thomas, On Friday, March 10, 2000 at 16:54:31 GMT +0800 (which was 12:54 AM where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: JAL What does the numbers in square brackets mean? They are generated by TB when you reply to a mail. Somebody thinks this is good. So, the replies are not numbered when you receive them, but the sender's TB already put them in there. Just a picky point, but they may be numbered when you receive them. If you get a message with Re[2]: and you don't use the %SINGLERE, then when you reply, your TB will generate Re[3]:. -- Thanks for writing Januk Aggarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! 1.41 Beta/5 under Windows 98 4.10 Build A -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
