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

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On Wed, 11 May 2011, David Ritchie 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?

pine here. I select (:) most all messages from my INBOX but those that I
want to read and apply (A) them to all be read, so that they're moved to
my read-messages. Any long threads add around 2 seconds to my total inbox
reading time.

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