Re: testing; and a few questions

>  --- [email protected] wrote: 
> > Oh, and it doesn't munge subject lines for easier filtering...
> 
> Subject munging is bad. Just filter on To: or Sender:, etc.

I don't know if subject munging is bad per se; it allows for 
people to easily do visual filtering if they don't have any proper
filters set up.  (And, at the risk of using a "millions of ants
can't be wrong argument", it does seem to be the most common reliable
marker.)
 
> > Dang. Was that considered an improvement?  Or does it tie in with the 
> > implementation of some other feature?  I can see the logic behind it,
> > but in practice it's tripping me up...
> 
> I can't recall the 1.4.x behaviour, but I'd say it's an improvement, not having
> to page back to the top of a message to look at the subject or whatever. The

I do see some of the potential advantages, but I still think it's a 
net loss; I rarely want to recheck the headers, but I find myself 
always trying to "read" the header, or having to consciously fight 
not to; an option to completely inverse the header would likely help
that, or maybe a row of hyphens underneath the header area. (There's 
another, smaller argument that not showing the header after the first 
page is a better use of space, but I think fewer people are actually 
reading at 24 Columns these days.

> first page of an article can still be readily distinguished by the headers
> (news headers, not tin header) displayed in col_newsheaders (default is bright
> red, I believe), as defined by news_headers_to_(not_)display in tinrc ("(Do not
> )display these header fields" in the options (M)enu).

Huh, I tried removing everything from headers to display, but they
all show up. Also, I can't really use ANSI colors; or at least need
to both fiddle with my TERM settings in putty as well as cycle through
all the colors to get rid of the "angry fruit salad effect"
 
> > and barring that, is there a repository for older versions of tin?
> 
> ftp.tin.org. But, of course, older versions have more bugs.

Just to be a pissant: "and fewer, from a usability standpoint", 
though I do realize that's a subjective opinion.  
 
Thanks for your answers though. I know opinionated "newbies" to 
a list can be a bit annoying, though I do try to back up my 
opinions with logical discussion.


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