Making a tool palette

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > I have said this before, and I don't mean to come off as rude,
 > but I read these posts in a threaded format. When someone
 > replies to a post but changes the subject line to create a new
 > post, it still remains part of the same thread in my email app,
 > and now I have 2, 3 and 4 subjects at times in the same thread.

Respectfully, IMNSHO this isn't a failing of the email user but of the 
designers of email clients and list archive software.

Header-based threading relies on information the user can't touch.   Not 
good.  Let people be free to use the things they can touch to express 
themselves as they like, and let machines do the drudgery of sorting it out.

Most humans never see email headers, nor should they.  They're for 
routing and tracing, but sorting is done in the human mind by subject 
line, and machines should follow human patterns if they are to be useful 
for people and not the other way around.

I have a custom list reader for this list, and naturally it sorts by 
subject line, as it should. ;)  When I reply it creates a new email, 
which means that old-world header-based threading won't be able to 
figure it out, as though somehow it can't find the subject line.

Sorry, Mr. Wieder, I know that bugs you too.  I'd do something else if 
that something else was as useful. :)

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