Hi, all,
Januk Aggarwal wrote...
>> Many people like to read new messages when they go to a folder, not
>> old ones.
JA> I like to do both. Otherwise what's the point of keeping old
JA> messages in that folder?
Thank you for a calm and reasoned response.
The biggest problem with the status quo occurs every morning when I
first get to my mail. There are typically more than a hundred
messages waiting to be read, scattered among different folders. If I
use the Mail Ticker, I find myself jumping back and forth among
different discussions in different folders, because the Mail Ticker
simply streams incoming messages in the order of their arrival.
I would rather go through a folder at a time, reading the new
messages in each mailing list, folder by folder. This can be done,
but it either requires mousing, or using an odd combination of
keystrokes: Tab to change to the folder tree, arrow keys to move to
the next folder (all the while highlighting messages I don't want to
see in each folder), then Tab to get back to the message list, and
finally that oddball CTRL + ] to find the next unread message.
Multiply that by each folder that has new articles.
During the day as new messages come in, I use the Mail Ticker for
most folders and leave the less important ones off it, so this is
not as big a problem. Still, getting to the less important articles
again takes all those weird keystrokes. Contrast this with Netscape
Communicator, Datula, Becky, EdMax, and other clients which let you
jump to an unread message in any folder from any location simply by
pressing the space bar or N key or a user-defined key.
This is not just a matter of saving a couple of strokes, it saves
hundreds of strokes each day. Different strokes for different folks
-- all I'm asking is for that option, not a mandatory change.
**In fact, a keystroke that takes you to the next unread message
across folders/accounts does not have to nullify the standard
behavior of opening a folder at the last read article. Both can
exist at the same time.**
--
Yours,
John De Hoog, Tokyo
http://dehoog.org
The Bat! 1.41 Beta/3
Windows NT 4 Build 1381
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