Re: Re: deleting messages

On Apr 29, 2004, at 10:30, matti wrote:

>> You must be an exception.  Most people expect to see 2 of 6.
>
> Whatever. But it puzzles me, how most people, after deleting one 
> message  of six, would still expect have six left?
> matti
>

Well, I find both to be true. -- And that's just with myself.

I usually find that if I'm in "box maintenance" mode... where I'm 
trying to clean out messages primarily from the index screen... then I 
usually expect the count to update and the messages disappear. In that 
mode, I'm thinking "how many junk messages do I have left to filter 
out?" (i.e. "Are we there yet, Papa Smurf?!") when I hit delete each 
time.

But then, when I'm actually reading my mail messages more at an 
individual message-by-message level, I usually find that I prefer the 
count to be static, so that it acts more like a progress bar in my 
head.

*shrug* Although, that's just me... and I'm admittedly rather a bit of 
a weirdo in many ways. =)

-jab