Sunday, November 28, 1999
Hello Douglas,
Friday, Friday, November 26, 1999, you wrote:
(snip)
Douglas> I infer from this that by turning off the ticker to the main accounts
Douglas> inbox, no ticker will be available for any of that account's
Douglas> subdirectories. Are you sure this is true? Or am I inferring something
Douglas> you did not mean to imply?
I never use the ticker as it takes up my desk space and is in the way.
It would be useful if I was parmanently on the internet to be alarmed
what just came in.
ALL my mail boxes are first level mail boxes and I filter any list
stuff to their own box.
You can see after mail is in which boxes have new mail and in general
what I have left in my inbox is what doesnt get hit by my filters and
some left over spam.
Anyway, having mail split up properly, even if you may want to dump
it makes life a lot easier as I get maybe 200-300 emails per day.
Douglas> Perhaps you have another reason for suggesting this. Perhaps you
Douglas> assume my main inbox needs a ticker. However - the amount of mail
Douglas> coming in precludes that, until such time as the ticker can be made
Douglas> more programmable, in a future version of TB!.
j>> additionally, have a filter (automatic) that will move all mail
j>> meeting certain criteria to your inbox, leaving the rest in the
j>> non-ticker folder. Perhaps TB could impliment a filter feature that
j>> would allow the filter to detect whether or not they were in your
j>> address book - then you could filter all mail from your friends to
j>> go to your inbox, all else to your collective folder.
Douglas> That's a good idea *but* - it's not always possible to foresee either
Douglas> what will arrive, or what will be important to me (require directing
Douglas> to a special folder for follow up). That's why I need to see it first,
Douglas> although certain issue related replies that I am awaiting could be
Douglas> filtered to a given tickered folder.
Douglas> The mail I get is not so much related to given people, and and the
Douglas> things I don't want to miss ( and therefore will want separated) are
Douglas> not always predictable.
Douglas> A lot of it is from lists, some of which are interactive like TUBDL
Douglas> and the content can vary considerably. (The ones that are not
Douglas> interactive are much more predictable and can be automatically
Douglas> filtered more easily.
Douglas> But there is so much of this now that it's hard to spot the rest of
Douglas> what I get, so the bulk of it is what I need to filter, preferably
Douglas> after having seen it all together. Then, selectively filtering would
Douglas> let me go over what's left more carefully.
Douglas> The alternative would be to have mail from all accounts actively
Douglas> filtered to separate folders in one account and sort through them from
Douglas> there.
>>> If filtering from the main inbox is active, this means that there's
>>> either enough of it to make it worth the effort to check the
>>> subdirectory separately (as I do for all TBUDL mail, which goes
>>> directly to it's own folder and is too much to use the ticker on),
>>> or that it's something I don't need to see in a timely way).
j>> <snip>
j>> I am not entirely clear on what you are saying, here...
j>> are you referring to having a filter set to trigger upon
j>> the box reaching so many messages?
Douglas> No. I mean that there's enough mail and the subject matter of TBUDL is
Douglas> of sufficient interest to me that I *will* check the incoming TUBDL
Douglas> mail in it's separate, actively filtered folder, while other
Douglas> newsletter type things can be left lie in *their* filtered folders for
Douglas> a time I'm less busy.
j>> If not... it's still a good idea - I'd like to see it implimented!
j>> (if it's not already, I don't think it is...) Quota-activated
j>> filters would be useful.
Douglas> That's probably true (although I can't come up with a scenario in
Douglas> which I'd need it at the moment).
>>> A ticker would be useful to the degree it could be
>>> activated and deactivated easily, and would be more
>>> useful if programmable for only new messages, within a
>>> given time frame
j>> Putting a minimize button on it and a launch button in
j>> the client (as well as the icon context menu) would be
j>> easy enough to implement, I am sure - as for
j>> programmable?
Douglas> That means selective - particularly in terms of time frame. As is, all
Douglas> unopened mail goes into it, and I have lots of mail I'm *never going
Douglas> to read, precluding the use of the ticker. (And other heavy email
Douglas> users on this list have told me of list that they don't use the ticker
Douglas> either). So - I'd like to see the ability to set it for given time
Douglas> frame, or to select a "today's mail only" or "last X day's mail only"
Douglas> option.
As far as I am concerned I donot use it as I am quicker looking at my
boxes then reading that ticker running around and telling me I have
200 boxes. Its a lot quicker to have mail in clear identifiably split
mailboxes , see which ones are changed and as mentioned above, all of
mine are first level so if I look at an account I see directly what
has new mail.
(snip)
Douglas> On the contrary, we're more or less focusing on the same issues and
Douglas> aside from this helping me to clarify the need, it also helps
Douglas> determine the degree of shared interest that may or may not exist on
Douglas> the part of other TB users on this list.
I might use the ticker if it had less garbage to show me, as its now
its useless to me.
Douglas> Douglas Hinds
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Douglas> P.S.
Douglas> Since these posts are lengthy, why don't we see if others share our
Douglas> interest in this thread and join in. If not, we could continue it off
Douglas> list if you like.
Just chop down on whats not needed as I am away for a week and my isp
misbehaves, I couldnt even get my email yesterday ..took a whole day and there
was some urgent stuff I really should have seen the day before.
Best regards,
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