Re: [NTLK] (No Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:34:09 -0500

From: Michael Mays (chaosmonk_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 11:32:43 EDT


To be perfectly honest, Outlook SUCKS. I've been using it for some time
now, and ever since I signed up for the list and applied filters to move
all the NTLK messages to my NewtonTalk folder, it likes to only transfer
them maybe 1/3 of the time...the rest of the time it nonchalantly leaves
them all sitting in my Inbox for me to deal with. Not only that, but a
bunch of these messages I've been getting have had a completely blank
subject line. I'm getting rid of Outlook 2002 NOW. Argh. Those of you
who are using it... I pity you. Use something else. :(

Michael Mays

-----Original Message-----
From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Eric L. Strobel
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:19 AM
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject:

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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