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On Mar 25, 2010, at 12:17 PM, "Peter Hart" <ph...@peterhartcomputers.co.uk 
 > wrote:

> No one has mentioned the problem I am having at the moment because  
> of my accident and then subsequent heart attack I am spending a  
> great deal of time reading emails on my Blackberry. If some one  
> bottom posts then most of the time the email cuts out before it gets  
> to the message. ProFox emails are very welcome reading when I am in  
> a hospital waiting room.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
> Peter Hart Computers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On  
> Behalf Of Nicholas Geti
> Sent: 25 March 2010 17:02
> To: ProFox Email List
> Subject: Re: [NF] Just got strange request from boss.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ricardo Aráoz" <ricar...@gmail.com>
> To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [NF] Just got strange request from boss.
>
>
>> Yes, your position is understandable for a mail address at work
>> dedicated only to office mails. But if you are subscribed to 7 to 10
>> different mail lists, plus personal mails, plus work related mails  
>> you
>> will certainly need a reminder of what was going on in the thread. In
>> that case the norm is to hover over the thread cited in the mail till
>> you get to the actual message. Of course you get the lazy a**es who
>> won't take the 1/2 a second needed to trim, and then you get enormous
>> amounts of cited text.
>> But you can certainly read your cited text and my answer within a  
>> screen
>> with no need for scrolling.
>
> I usually just park the threads I am interested in without reading  
> them. I
> treat them more like a database so that later when I need to know  
> something
> I use search techniques to find the information. Saves a huge amount  
> of
> time.
>
>>
>>> In addition most of the emails on this forum are so much fluff.  
>>> When I do
>>> find a thread that is highly technical and I want to learn it, I  
>>> will
>>> spend
>>> the time scrolling up and down and clipping text to put it together
>> <spam trimmed>
>>> . In that case it matters not
>>> at all to me what order exists.
>>>
>> So you don't care to spend half an hour making sense of text but  
>> you do
>> care for half a second trimming.
>>
>
> Because I park the threads I don't spend more than a few seconds  
> with them.
> Then later once my search turns up a topic I am interested in, I  
> will spend
> ten or fifteen minutes studying the thread. But due to lack of  
> trimming I
> pick the latest message and usually get what I want without too much  
> fuss.
> Most messages are small enough that I can pick up the sense no  
> matter what
> direction it runs.
>
>
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