Re: Why not highlighting the newest message in the folder ?

[Steve Lamb]

Sunday, February 13, 2000, 12:46:25 PM, Paula wrote:
> I don't see that this issue is about what is "logical" as much as simply
> varying user preferences.

    No.  It is, again, the program making the assumption that you want to do
something.  A program shouldn't do something on the UI side until told to do
so.  Just because you go into a folder doesn't mean you:

a: want to read a message at all
b: want to move the pointer at all
c: even wanted to be there (miskey) at all

    It is not logical to /assume/ you're going to do anything since there are
several options presented to you.  By placing you right where you were and
letting you decide it avoids conflict between what you wanted to do this time
and what it might have thought you wanted to do.

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