Re: IM2000 Won't Be Worth It

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:42:38AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > It might also automatically retrieve only the summary headers of all of
> > > her other waiting messages, which she can look through /offline/ and
> > > decide which to ignore and which to retreive automatically the /next/ time
> > > she's online for a minute or two.
> > 
> > I thought about that. But it is often the case that you decide whether to
> > retrieve certain messages based on reading first some related messages.
> > Think of how you might decide to read a thread on a mailinglist: you read
> > the first message, and then you may decide not to even look at the other
> > messages in the thread.
> 
> Yes, but IM2000 covers that.  The summary-only information includes enough
> information to determine whether the message is part of a thread you're
> interested in (References:, Message-ID:).  If you tell your IM2000 MUA
> "retrieve this thread" (explicitly, or implicitly by reading it perhaps) it
> can retrieve all the messages in the thread without retrieving the
> bodies/complete headers of other messages.


In my IM2000 notification box, I have the following messages

1 Subject: error message
2 Subject: Re: error message
3 Subject: Re: error message
4 Subject: dinner with me
5 Subject: dinner with me
6 Subject: dinner with me

Offline: flag 1 and 4 to see what they are really about 

Dial in: download 1 and 4

Off line: read 1 and 4.  Both are interesting.  Also, 2 is from an
ass, while 3 is from Charles, so I just flag 3 from this thread.  Now,
5 appears like a duplicate of 4, but let us really see; flag 5.

Dial in: download 3 and 5.

Offline: 3 is a response to 2 which is interesting, afterall, but
Charles quoted only part of it.  Let us flag 2.  5 corrects the
proposed date for dinner; flag 6.

Dial in: download 2 and 6.

Offline: read and answer away. (6 _was_ spam).

Mate

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