Re: lynx-dev Re: Administrivia: List "reply" address

[David Combs]

People talk about using mail "folders", and imply that
if I had any brains at all, that's what I'd use (re the
"lynx" prefix on subject line).

I don't know anything about "folders" -- other than to despise
the name as used by M$ (and now Sun too!) for the "user-unfriendly"
word "directory".  But that's a whole other matter.  :-(

Anyway, all I know about mail folders is that when I "s" (save)
an eamil, via mutt, the default place is a directory of the
name of the sender (I think).

But back to the subject line, with mutt I do "o s" (Option Sort by
Subject), and get this screen, top part of which is this:


q:Quit  d:Del  u:Undel  s:Save  m:Mail  r:Reply  g:Group  ?:Help                
                                                    
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   4 N   May 09 Euro-Share      (  27) [euro-share] Nag Screen
   5 N   May 09 Euro-Share      (  43) [euro-share] Nag screen???
   6 N   May 09 Euro-Share      (  60) [euro-share] Nag Screens
   7 N   Apr 28 Euro-Share      (  36) [euro-share] Registration Key Receival 
Cente
   8 N   May 04 Euro-Share      (  35) [euro-share] Registration Key Receival 
Cente
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  10 N   May 09 Euro-Share      (  34) [euro-share] Slow sales period
  11 N   May 08 FAIR-L          ( 115) [FAIR-L] ACTION ALERT: How to Save Low 
Power Radio
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  44 N   May 08 David Combs     (  50) Re: lynx-dev Re: Administrivia: List 
"reply" address
  45 N   May 08 Mike Castle     (  21) Re: lynx-dev Re: Administrivia: List 
"reply" address
  46 N   May 08 Doug Kaufman    (  22) Re: lynx-dev Re: Administrivia: List 
"reply" address
 

THIS is all the "folders" I need -- notice how the subject-lines
create a pseudo-threads grouping (earliest first WITHIN group).

Works fine for me.

And for everyone, REGARDLESS of their mail-reader, ancient
(eg the standard unix "mail") OR new and fancy.

Yeah, "Re: Lynx" takes a few chars from a line.  (just "LYNX:"
would be fewer!)  ("LY:" fewer yet, or "LX:" maybe).

Anyway, sorting by subject line sure makes it easy for me
to (a) SEE what mail I have and (b) READ it via "threads".

There might indeed be other ways to do this -- but will
it work with ALL email-readers?

---

Joke I heard today on radio, re "love" virus:

   Is that M$ program named "outlook", or is it "look out!"?



David


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