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

arxaaron arxaaron at gmail.com
Thu May 12 22:31:08 EDT 2011


On 2011/05/12, at 16:46 , Dev Null wrote:
> 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.

Mac Mail for local POP client.  Gmail for out and about.

peace
aaron


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