Subj : oops.. no subject, and killing threads
To   : August Abolins
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Apr 17 2019 06:35:20

 On 2019 Apr 17 00:29:00, you wrote to me:

 AA>>> But apologies for missing a Subject in the original post!  Apoint
 AA>>> did not seem to have a warning for that.

 ml>> no apology needed here... i rarely ever look at the message
 ml>> headers... 99.999% of the time, i only look at the next message
 ml>> body... maybe once in a while i'll  look at the header to see who
 ml>> wrote to whom but that's just being nosey :lol:

 AA> Hmmm.. Yes, I find most people are lazy and don't even "adjust" the
 AA> subject to reflect the content.   Instead you'll find reply after
 AA> reply, veering off-the-original-topic quickly and no one bothers to
 AA> update the subject line!  :(

yet another strike against subject line sorting and ordering... i've always
tossed the mail as it arrived and never sorted it... with a proper reader
capable of MSGID/REPLY linking, you can walk through the branches of a thread
quite easily...

 AA> But I sure am glad that threading is maintained in modern readers, so
 AA> as to "kill" or skip a thread if desired.  Not sure how to do that in
 AA> this oxp, but in t-bird it is a great feature.

in the BBS world, you use the [NEXT] key or a twit filter ;)

)\/(ark

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