Re: IM2000 Won't Be Worth It

[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.

Charles
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