I tried that at first, but two things made it less then helpful. One, not
everyone uses the same subject title sequence, thus subjects I would have
liked were filtered out. Second, it still ment I had to try and follow replys
accross many emails, rather then in one place like on the forums.
dafrca
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> I tried that at first, but two things made it less then helpful. One,
Actually what I am starting to wonder is once again a generational gap. Are
the people having difficulty using or following the mailing list using
webmail? (the most god awful invention ever).
Most modern (as in post 1986) email clients that do honest to god email (you
know, POP and IMAP) do threading, filtering, and all sorts of goodies that
solve all the problems I am hearing. Many even use fuzzy logic in threadings
to match subjects where the subject line isn't exactly the same though based
on content, sender, and times it grasp's that it is the same thread (and also
does subtreads within threads).
Seriously.
I can't imagine anybody using a email client having the problem described on
this list. And no webmail, Outlook Express, and Opera's builtin email client
are not email clients.
I am geniunely curious. I have hard time grasping anybody reading email
(period, even professionally in work) as one monolithic list based on send
time.
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:03:30 +0100, Peter Thoenen <eol1@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I can't imagine anybody using a email client having the problem
Yeah, Opera's built in client is better than mere email clients in many
ways. The same message can be filtered to appear in both the GZG-L
mailing list view and in a user created Full Thrust view, (along with FT
messages from other lists, and FT related newsgroup postings and RSS feeds)
and
also in a separate view for a particular author. All without creating
duplicates of any message.
Plus full threading, etc.
Now if only they would fix the remaining user interface issues it would be
perfect.
To: The_Beast
I could go and change up the graphics and text to show a test system. I
haven't done so since it's just for testing purposes and has only been listed
on this list as a test site and told to Jon. In the event that he doesn't want
it I'm just going to delete it though.
> Actually what I am starting to wonder is once again a generational
90% of the people I know use web mail. Why? It's portable. I use a webmail
client (Squirrel Mail) on my own server because of that reason. I do a lot of
traveling and transfering between computers and this way I always have it
infront of me.
Once you get off webmail the next big group of people are those that use the
webbrowsers email client and Outlook.
Personally I WANT to use a dedicated email client but these days it's just not
feasable.
Well, you noticed I've been giving it a try. Be a shame if you end up
converting me only to have it disappear. ;->=
I took the site as purely testbed, but I also realize how something up for
even a short time can cause concern for misunderstanding.
Whatever happens, hope there's no hard feelings; even the concerned have given
you props on the production values.
The_Beast
Jaime wrote on 07/11/2006 11:40:16 AM:
> To: The_Beast