Re: OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> One typical scenario is when I am interested in following one branch
> of a thread (i.e. a subthread), while I wish to ignore the rest. In
> KMail's threaded view this is trivial --- subthreads are just various
> branches in the thread tree, and I can always mark this branch as
> interesting, that as uninteresting, etc., and keep following only the
> interesting part of the thread.

I guess I've never believed that there would be no interesting posts
in a branch with an uninteresting parent or vice versa.  Is this a
real statistical observation or just a guess?


> I typically don't have time to read
> through all messages in a well-sized thread. In gmail this is
> literally impossible, and I need to go through *all* messages in the
> conversation, since the interesting branches and unimportant branches
> are mixed together.

Can't say that I really read everything but unless you are way behind
you mostly see the individual messages in the inbox anyway without
much structure in the unread portion, so you you can decide about most
of it based on subject/sender.

> Your usecase is probably different from mine. If you always have time
> to read through the whole thread, I agree that subthreading isn't
> important. But nevertheless, it's a pity that gmail's web interface
> doesn't support this, since there are people (like me) who would find
> proper threading very useful. In general I don't complain since KMail
> resolves this problem for me, but gmail devs would really gain some
> points in my eyes if they would implement real threading. ;-)

I'm starting to wonder how its fuzzy 'importance' concept works and if
it will turn out to be a more important metric than some old
upper-level parent post where the branch now has little in common with
the point where you decide to watch or ignore.   It is at least good
at flagging responses to my own messages, something that thunderbird
doesn't seem to understand.  Anyway, keeping the inbox empty is new to
me and using the web/phone readers is the first time I've been able to
do it.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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