Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Re: netsurf-users Digest, Vol 59, Issue 6

On 3 Apr 2012 <evanallen@talktalk.net> wrote:

> In article <d26c297a52.jim@nails.abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel
> <netsurf@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
>> evanallen@talktalk.net wrote on 29 Mar:

>>>> How can one loooong email with all the replies in all the threads
>>>> which people haven't snipped repeated again and again possibly be
>>>> less annoying than 40 emails? Just curious.

>>> It is a matter of personal preference. For me I prefer the one long
>>> digest rather than many emails. Obviously others prefer all the
>>> single emails.

>> Doesn't your email system have filters, Evan (and Allan and "m0n0")?
>> A filter sends all those 40 Netsurf emails into a Netsurf folder.
>> Then you just skim the subject lines and open only the ones that
>> interest you.

>> And with threading as well as a filter, you don't even see many
>> subject lines.

> As I said, its a matter of personal preference. Not everyone wants to
> do as you do.

> Why so evangelical?

Because unformatted replies to digest messages are a fundamental pain,
IMHO at any rate. :-(

With best wishes,

Peter.

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