on 4/26/02 2:59 AM, Jon Glass at jonglass_at_mac.com wrote:
>
> on 4/26/02 3:54 AM, Eric L. Strobel at fyzycyst_at_comcast.net wrote:
>
>> I believe the gripe is that it would be nice to order the entire threads by
>> date, not just w/in each thread.
>
> I can think of one good reason to have the threads listed by subject. If
> they are sorted by subject, the same threads are usually in about the same
> place in the folder view. In other words, the audio adapter is at or about
> the top, and the palm threads are somewhere in the middle or toward the
> bottom. I can follow threads pretty quickly because they are sorted by
> topic, and not by the date of the first message in a thread (which could get
> rather anarchic, now that I think of it. I have no problems with sorting by
> subject to get threaded. I will give Victor credit, in that NewtonTalk is
> the best email list (to which I'm subscribed) for its threads together.
> Other lists somehow have the same thread split up in several places, yet
> NewtonTalk keeps them together quite well. Do you put something in the
> header that helps Entourage and OE to keep them together?
It is largely (my opinion) that the "[NTLK]" comes AFTER the "Re:" in
replies. This allows the original subject "[NTLK] blah blah blah" to remain
invariant, thereby allowing OE/Entourage to establish that a swatch of
messages are all part of the same thread.
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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