Hello pmf, On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, at 15:34:49 [GMT -0400] (which was 3:34:49 PM in NY, USA) pmf wrote:
J>> New wish list item for consideration...or is it necessary? I J>> really miss an old "Watch Thread" feature that I think I came J>> across first in XNews. > The "Watch Thread" feature has been in news readers long pre-dating > XNews. To clarify, I said I came across it first, not that XNews featured it first. I too have used a good many newsreaders in the past. While I don't consider it a newsreader per se, it may have been OE in which I first saw the "watch thread" option. It could have been Agent or Gravity. The reason I mentioned XNews at all was to give an example of what I was after. Had I known that people would think I didn't know the difference between a newsreader and a mail client, I wouldn't have did so. My fault...I mistakenly used the term "Watch Thread" which at least Agent uses to selectively download future messages that belong to a thread of interest. Was it Netscape Messenger that had a similar scoring function for mail threads? > It's been expressed many times on the list that people essentially want > to bring the functionality of news readers to mailing lists. Outwardly, > the newsgroups and mailing lists are very similar, but the guts of how > news and email work are very different, making it not a trivial task to > add some of a news readers functionality to a mailer. More importantly, the purpose of newsgroups and mail lists are similar. Seeing the response to the recent wish list item that I supported, I gathered that a good many TB users use lists often. As such, I expected to see some support for this particular suggestion. > As you mention in another message, what you're thinking of is scoring, > not watching. Thanks for correcting me. But remember, the scoring should be proactive. > A simple highlighting or flagging would be doable if TB > could keep a setting for thread - for example, a mark thread flagged > option would flag incoming as well existing messages in the thread. That'd be perfect. But I think the actual procedure would have to be internal since TB offers the ability to select by what header people prefer their messages to be threaded if at all. > However, I've seen news readers - which are designed to handle such > processing - have trouble with consistently applying thread settings to > new messages in a thread, so I'd guess its not as easy to do as it might > seem. The only 'reader' I recall encountering such a problem was OE...enough said. But is this suggestion good enough to add to the Wish list in your opinion? -- Best regards, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stamp-co.com The Bat! v.1.62/Beta1 Windows XP build 2600 AMD Athlon 1Ghz 1.0 Gb RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
