[NTLK] Entourage/OE & best way to read this list (was OT: on OT)

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 21:55:01 EDT


somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 4/24/02 5:26 PM, the entity known
as Laurent Daudelin transmitted the following from
laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com:

>
> On 24/04/02 16:41, "Eric L. Strobel" <fyzycyst_at_comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> on 4/24/02 2:24 PM, Robert Benschop at rbenschop_at_mac.com wrote:
>>
>>> If the traffic becomes this high with so much OT in it I tend to accidently
>>> delete on-topic Newton related questions that normally I would dig up out of
>>> my deleted items folder, but I won't/can't be bothered after I just deleted
>>> over 50 messages unread.
>>
>> If I read the headers correctly, you use Entourage? Is there a reason why
>> you don't have message threading turned on? That's how I cull out
>> uninteresting topics, just pop open the thread and select them all and BAM!
>> (Well, I'm in OE, but they're basically the same, right?)
>
> However, I don't know why, but Microsoft, IMHO, has severely overlooked the
> threading. Once you select the messages to be threaded, they are all sorted
> by the subject! What a stupid idea! I would like to have the threads sorted
> by the date the first message in the thread was sent, but nope, you can't do
> that. If it wasn't for that, Entourage would be near perfect for email, for
> me at least...
>
> -Laurent.

{How's that subject line for steering things "on topic"? :-) }

I totally agree about their half-assed threading scheme. The other problem
is shows up on some other lists. The Duo/2400 list prepends all subject
lines with [Duo2400], i.e., the 'Re:' in the replies is AFTER the list
label. This means that the initial message of a thread is always separated
from all the replies when threading is turned on. Worse, by far, is the
Mathematica list (MathGroup). There, each message is prepended by a
SEQUENTIAL designator "[mg#####]", where the ##### is the five digit
sequential number. This, of course, defies any scheme of threading. And
then there are the times when some replies are denoted by "RE:", or "Re:",
or "re:". These all create separate threads.

The reason for this long-winded complaint is that I was wondering if anyone
had ideas for some AppleScript to handle this. OR, if anyone knows of a
mail reader that would handle some/all of the above threading challenges.

- Eric.

-- 

Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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