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Re: The "subject"



Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Ken,

I use Netscapes Messenger for emails for other filing reasons, but have the
same
problems as probably all of us will. The only way I can see this working for
everyone is if it was performed on the server side where the posters name is
embedded into the end of the subject, however, the problem with that becomes an
issue of dissimilar thread subjects. I can't think of a good way to do this
that
won't screw something up, but it is definately worth thinking about.

Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Kchdlh-at-aol-dot-com>
>
> Does anyone else have this problem?:
>
> The "More on spark delay" "thread" has become extensive.  AOL, which I use &
> don't like a whole lot, lists all those messages in the "Incoming Mail"
folder,
> identifying each one only with that subject-entry and the date of the email.
> Thus, when I want to refer to one or another of those saved messages for
reply
> or other consideration, there is no useful indication as to which one is
> which.  I have to click on one after another and examine the text.  (Juno is
> better in that as soon as the highlight lands on a message, the text appears
> below;  I ought to switch back!)
>
> If a lot of others on the List have a similar problem, I wonder if it
would not
> be a good thing for us to try to modify the Subject a bit each time we
continue
> it, perhaps adding our name or something else to differentiate the
message from
> all the others?
>
> Or, Terry-- Could you automate such a feature?  Just add a cumulating
number to
> messages having identical Subjects.  That might help a lot.*
>
> Ken Herrick
>
> *"I" don't have a way to do thus but I'll forward this to Chip to see if
there
> is a chance it could be done there. - T.