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

[The Don Lachlan]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:14:07PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> Outlook does threading, but poorly. Almost as bad as it detects spam.
> 
> For ALE, I use Gmail's web interface. But, lately, I have started
> using Gmane's NNTP support to access other lists. It's great, and very
> tempting to switch the way I access this list.

http://lifehacker.com/157042/make-outlook-thread-conversations-like-gmail

Myself, I think GMail has pretty poor threading. I use it for all of my spam
lists but I had to start accessing it via Mutt+imap to properly read &
respond to ALE.

I prefer NNTP to mailing lists - I'll have to take a look at using Gmane.

-L

> 
> On Wednesday, May 11, 2011, George Allen <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mutt rocks.
> > I really wish I could thread messages in outlook for work.  Anyone know how to do this?
> > Or wish that mutt and taskwarrior and some cool ncurses calendar application could talk directly to exchange. :)
> > On May 11, 2011 10:09 PM, "David Ritchie" <deritchie at gmail.com> wrote:> I have been reading the long thread on OT postings, and am curious.
> >> How many people read the ALE using mail
> >> software that combines threads, and how many do not? If you are
> >> reading with a threaded reader (such as gmail),
> >> if you don't care about a thread, you just discard it. Other readers
> >> (such as the default views on Outlook) force you
> >> to touch each mail individually. Is this a possible cause of some of
> >> the pain people are having reading the volume of
> >> messages?
> 
> -- 
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> 
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