Hello Mike, On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 03:38:33 +0000 GMT (21/01/03, 10:38 +0700 GMT), Mike Alexander wrote:
MA>>> 1. What exactly is a kludge in terms of TB!s filtering system? MA>>> and, MDP>> It is simply one of the message headers, like "Subject: $$$". You can make all of them visible by hitting shift-crtl-K. "Kludges" in TB parlance are correctly called RFC822 Headers, and that is what they are called in other parts of TB's interface. If you hit shift-crtl-K on any incoming message (please do it with this one now), you will also find one header that says: References. In this example: References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What is this for? Well, TB supports "threaded view". This means, a reply will be put under the messages it was replied to, so that it is easy to follow a discussion. Many people read this list using this "threaded view". While reading this message (you can hit shift-crtl-K again now, to hide the Kludges <g>), please go to View / View Threads by / References (or just hit alt-1) and see how the messages on this list are neatly shown in discussion "threads". Now find your first message asking about Kludges.... it is hidden deep deep down in a thread called "I love the Bat (...)". You took Anne's mail and just replied to it. This means many people haven't even seen your question, because they might not have been following the long thread "I love the Bat". If you want to start a new subject, it is therefore recommended to not just hit Reply and only change the subject line, but to start a new message. ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. If you're born again, do you have two bellybuttons? Message reply created with The Bat! 1.63 Beta/3 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
