FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: Riddles --- was Re:arachne Digest V2 #100

["Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <bastiaan.pa3ffz@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:44:55 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

>> These "Digest V2 #93" in the "Subject" line are no subjects, just
>> ridles!

>> The subject line is meant to give the reader a clue... are these the
>> advantages of an archived list?

> Nope, it's one of the DISadvantages of people subscribing to the list in
> Digest form.

> The stuff is mailed out like a daily newspaper, and like a newspaper its
> header is the name of the thing and the volume and edition number.

> Perhaps the problem lies with those of us who don't edit the Subject
> line when we write a reply. I rarely occurs to me that I really should
> do this, and I think its the same with many (most?) of the posters here.

> One problem is that it seems logical to rewrite the Subject if
> you're going to do it at all, BEFORE you select the external
> editor to edit the text to write your reply.

> Then when you come back from the external editor, you click on
> "Send Mail NOW!" or "Save to Outbox" without looking at the
> Subject line again.

I never have these problems by using the internal Arachne editor.
The internal editor suits me very well for composing and/or answering
e-mails.

> And unfortunately with the way Arachne works, the changes you've
> made to the fields at the top of the Compose Message page have
> been LOST!

> This might be another thing to look at when the gurus get around
> to fixing the internal editor.

Perhaps things get lost when changing from internal to external editor
and back. But, I cann't find anything wrong with the internal editors
use for e-mail.

The one thing that anoys me is the wordwrap if there is a 'space' at the
end of the line... and that wordwrap is off when using the internal
editor outside of 'insight'.

>> I treat V2 #93 e-mails like SPAM... just delete them.

> Then I guess you've been missing a lot of the messages.

I'am sure I do. Today 25 messages concerning Arachne were in the inbox.
Maybe you have got the time to open and read them all... and add some
time to answer or react to the interesting ones.
It would be nice to be able to judge from the "Subject" line if the mail
is interesting or not... that is what the subject line is meant for.

A related problem: it would be a nice feature if the subject line could
be changed before an e-mail is stored in a folder.
Of course the mail folders are subject related but it is not possible to
add remarks or priority to the stored mails in the mail folders.

Bastiaan

> Greg

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