atw: Re: digestion of the digests
- From: Michael Edward Granat <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 01:43:20 +1100
Ah, Dr Bill (Parker),
Then you'd absolutely love Qualcomm Eudora Pro Email 6.x (to which I
subscribe, making it ad-free) which comes with a new and brilliant (if
weird) little tool / feature called a Content Concentrator.
Without knowing that it was switched on in the application Tools Options,
it even fooled me into supposing that the text of the quoted E-mail threads
to which I was referring had somehow been snipped in transit, after passing
through the atw Freelists site.
The Content Concentrator takes all those repetitive quoted E-mail threads
and compresses them for viewing, so that they appear with a single line
stating <snip> for the text of each threaded message.
To quote the Eudora Pro Email 6.x help about the Content Concentrator:
>This feature allows you to concentrate text inside a single message by
>trimming redundant headers and text in the message window. You can also
>group threaded messages and view them with trimmed headers and text all at
>once in the preview pane of a mailbox. Threaded messages are messages you
>receive that were either sent, forwarded, or redirected to you about the
>same subject or from the same sender.
There are various levels of adjustability built into the Eudora Pro Email
Content Concentrator and it does nothing to the messages themselves, only
making a difference to how they display.
Very canny stuff. Although I have switched the Content Concentrator off
here, because it can become a tad confusing when what you see is not at all
like what you got.
Would that phenomenon be called WYSINAALWYG and pronounced
"whizzynarlwig"? I certainly hope not.
For more on the new Eudora Pro Email tool (6) that, on my PC at least, does
everything that its version 5 predecessor did, but so much more smoothly
and efficiently that I find it even more of a joy to use, see:
<http://www.qualcomm.com/eudora>.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Michael Granat
Write Ideas
At 21:08 18/2/2004, you wrote:
>I just love the DIGEST mode. All the chat, warts and all and all in one HIT.
>
>Pity about the footers, but then one day somebody will invent some
>nifty software that lets you jump from one message to a new one and
>to by-pass all the stuff you just read many times. Bill Gates might
>also become impoverished too.
>
>
>Bill
>--
>Dr Bill Parker
>RENEW - Scientific and Technical writing & editing in energy and resources.
>Box 322 Mt Lawley WA 6929
>08 9371 6373 0403 583 676
>email: renew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>web: members.westnet.com.au/renew/
E & OE
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