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From: NADWL@HDEDH1.BITNET (Scott Ophof)
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Subject: Re: Two more items for the wish list
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Date: 5 Feb 90 17:57:31 GMT
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In-Reply-To:  Message of Fri, 2 Feb 90 11:15:59 EST from <MICHAEL@UTORONTO>

On Fri, 2 Feb 90 11:15:59 EST Michael Wagner said:
>>Re using the chain of Message-Ids to sequence messages:
>>...
>MAILBOOK    4 items    HELP! My help contains no help
>MAILBOOK   18 items    More ideas for the wish list
>MAILBOOK 2001 items    More congratulations for Richard on a job well done

I second the motion for this type of display (as an option, of course).


>More to the point, when I am looking at a piece of mail, I want 3 PFKeys:
>PARENT, SIBLING, and CHILD.  These should use the message-id information
>when it is available, and only resort to date/time/timezone/cokebottle
>heuristics when more reliable means aren't available.

Another second here.  Especially the SIBLING idea (I'm running out of PF keys,
by the way...).  PF keys sensitive to the cursor-position?

Generally, I think it's time to evaluate what's really MAIL/MAILBOOK stuff,
and what is nice & handy stuff (but not really necessary), and putting all
those extra's in a separate macro; might make MAILB00K XEDIT easier to
manage, and maybe give users a better place to put their own ideas?
I know about MAILUSER XEDIT, but I don't feel that to be the right place.

Regards.
Scott/