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 2222 A
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