On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:30:58 +0000, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
[..snip..]
> I'm afraid that I will not be doing you the "courtesy" of removing
> your RealName from the To: address of this message as Allie did. I am
> sending a message to the TBUDL list which I am addressing to a
> specific individual: Steve Lamb. That does not imply that Steve Lamb's
> e-mail address is that of the list. Nobody on this list ever believed
> it did.
Hey Marck, I still happen to share some of your sentiments on the
matter and decided to make a compromise that I think is reasonable and I
will not waver from since, as I said before, I do not thread my messages
and instead use the To: column to see what's happening. Furthermore when I
to messages on the list, I am directing my comments to the persons message
to which I'm replying, however, with the knowledge that the rest of the
subscribers are reading it as well. I see no problem then in replying to
subscriber 'jasper on TBUDL' instead of just plain 'jasper jones' with
TBUDL's address beside it.
The feature, if properly used, does put some power into seeing what's
happening in discussion list mail when managed without threading for
whatever reason. Marck ends up not using threading because he manages new
messages via the ticker generated virtual folder window. I don't use
threading because the thread view uses a variable amount of screen width
when collapsed as opposed to expanded. Navigating threads is also awkward.
I have placed this macro in my address book specific reply template
for TBUDL:
%TO=""%TO="%OFROMFNAME on TB!_UDL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
I am beginning to like the address book specific templates. They only
take effect when the reply:to address corresponds to that of the address
book address. Another thing is that the Ctrl+F4 works as it should. Yet
another thing is that the templates follow addresses to whatever location
you place them. I may then filter TBUDL messages to wherever I wish
without hitting reply and seeing the wrong template generated.
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