Thomas, Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 8:08:32 PM, you wrote: Thomas> This is a long-standing wish. It resulted in Ritlabs giving us the the Thomas> possibility of "flagging" messages (ctrl-G).
Flagging solves a problem with other systems, where I've wanted to mark a message for further attention. The only way to do this on other systems has been to leave its status as "unread" but this has never been satisfactory. So, Flagging is for a different purpose from indicating newness. The Ticker already implements the construct of New. I am merely suggesting some additional ways to display it. Thomas> With the basic/unread/new philosophy, we have not arrived at a Thomas> definition of "unread" versus "new". Read/Unread is already well-defined in TB. The open/closed envelope indicates the difference. I'm not suggesting any change. Hmmmm... On the other hand, maybe I AM suggesting a change: Once a message has been Read, it is no longer New, even if the Age Limits algorithm says otherwise.) The Ticker already implements the New construct, with controls over how long the condition exists. Again, I'm not suggesting any change to this. The only change would be adding display of this status in other places. (If I understand the TB algorithm, a message is a candidate for being New when it first arrives into TB. The "Age Limits" options then apply to determine how old it has to be before it is shown and how much older it has to be before it is not longer shown.) d/ -- Dave Crocker <mailto:dhc2@;dcrocker.net> TribalWise <http://www.tribalwise.com> ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
