Hello Ali,
Friday, October 01, 1999, 2:57:59 PM, you wrote:
AM> Hi all,
AM> On Friday, October 01, 1999, 3:43:12 AM (-5 GMT), Claude scribbled:
AM>>> A time. Wouldn't that time vary depending on how many messages you have
AM>>> in that particular folder. I see a lot of potential problems there. I
AM>>> still think that your feature is worthwhile but only workable through a
AM>>> manual toggle switch or through filters.
>> The time you need to read a post vary, too, depending on how many
>> lines you have in it. But, after a time you've defined, it's marked
>> "unread". Did you have any problem with that? I had, from time to
>> time: what I do is to hit ctrl+U and mark it unread.
AM> Exactly, but that is one message per incident.
AM> Suppose you get 30 messages in a folder and you are picking out the
AM> interesting ones to read and some are long. You reach message 15 of the
AM> new messages, while there are some twenty seen messages for later.
AM> Suddenly there's a timeout and all the new messages are changed to
AM> 'seen.' I say, Aw shucks and have to look for the new ones to continue
AM> reading. Wouldn't it be better if you read what you wanted to and then
AM> at the end hit a keyboard shortcut which would label all unread messages
AM> 'seen' and not 'new' and then you move on?
AM> Automaticity has it's problems and esp. so with your type of proposal.
>> If you want a manual toggle, It may be this one, as it is a better
>> priorities management to spend time, hand working, with urgent posts,
>> than to spend it with all the non-urgents.
AM> Sure.
>> In this case:
>> Red (new posts in): I open the folder.
>> A time (user defined): All "new" posts in it are marked "seen".
>> Orange.
>> (If I want, for any reason, to keep one "new")
>> I press ctrl+something: This particular post is marked "new". Red.
>> Agreed?
AM> Yes.
>> Please notice two thing.
>> 1- People who don't like this option may just act as if red and orange
>> were the same color and don't make *any* change in their habits.
AM> No, they just can't act. Multicolored folders get in the way unless they
AM> have some useful meaning to the user.
>> 2- When I open a red folder, I *know* that it's going to be orange.
>> So, I go and see all the "new" posts.
AM> Yes, you don't need to explain any further from your POV. I'm simply
AM> explaining problems that may arise and annoy another user. One way of
AM> doing this is to make it manual. This way anyone not interested in this
AM> facility will not see any orange folders while using TB!. :)
>> If you really *hate* this auto change (why not), and want a manual
>> toggle, for me I *don't* want to hand work and waste time with *each*
>> non-urgent posts. So, I can live with a manual toggle which changes
>> *all* the "new" posts to "seen" with only *one* mouse click. Could
>> you?
AM> Sure. You read what you wish to read and then use the keyboard shortcut
AM> that labels all unread messages 'seen'. You then move on. No need to hit
AM> the shortcut for each message. Do you always have non-urgent messages in
AM> each folder?
Best regards,
friko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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