From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2001-12-29T08:15:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29599] Re: New Rubygarden poll


I don't know about Outlook Express, but Entourage and Outlook both have a
threaded view or something similar. Entourage is an Outlook-like thing for
the Mac that doesn't need an Exchange server -- it threads using some
algorithm involving subject and date, which isn't right but it is useable.
Outlook will do something similar but it is not obvious how to get it to do
it (you have to view by subject and sort by conversation thread index -- or
something like that, it has been a while and I don't have access to a
windows machine that runs Outlook).

Bob

On 12/28/01 2:22 PM, "Mark Hahn" <mchahn@facelink.com> wrote:

> You can only sort by subject.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:20 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:29574] Re: New Rubygarden poll
> 
> 
> At Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:15:00 +0900,
> Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
>>> At any rate, I would like to see the message number remain easily
>>> accessible. If it has to be moved, I would favor the end of the
>>> subject line or the first line of the body.
>>> 
>>> As for a header: Well, you may flame me, hate me, or denigrate me,
>>> but my most commonly used email client is Outlook Express.
>> 
>> From what I understand, as an Outlook user you currently don't get
>> proper threading of mailing list messages. With the numbers removed,
>> threading should start working. So you have a tradeoff between the
>> convenience of threading and the convenience of being able to see a
>> message number quickly.
> 
> I have a question.  Can Outlook really construct thread trees
> correctly if subjects are not numbered?  Or it can just group
> the messages by the subjects?
> 
> 
> Nobu Nakada
>