[ale] OT (slightly): How do you read the ale mailing list?

[Lightner, Jeff]

"broken" in your opinion.   Don't get me wrong - I'm not an Outlook fan
but since it's what the company uses it is what I use here.

Anyway I just checked and saw Outlook does have choices for headers and
has one called "Conversation" which appears to be their way of saying
thread.

Personally I've never seen the need for threading tools - I am able to
ignore threads that don't interest me simply by scanning the list in the
folder.   Of course I don't have Ale (or most email for that matter) go
to my inbox - I've set up rules that direct most of my email to separate
folders.   There's been more than once that I've simply marked all the
ALE mail as "read" because I didn't have spare cycles to read it all.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Pat
Regan
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 9:08 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT (slightly): How do you read the ale mailing list?

On Thu, 12 May 2011 09:02:08 -0400
"Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

> In Outlook you can sort by subject and then select all the messages
> with the same subject and delete them.   Of course when people change
> the subject this might not work but then again a changed subject is
> often indication that a sub-thread has been spawned from the original.

If your mail client is keeping track of threads by subject then it is
just plain broken.  There is a header that keeps track of this sort of
thing.

I know Outlook used to be capable of making use of that header, but it
also used to do a pretty poor job of it...

Pat
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