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Alfe wrote:

Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

In order to avoid an escalation of the number of messages,
please try to list and summarize suggestions in one long message
(or a few messages by subject), rather than a big number of short messages.

I prefer multiple short messages because each independent topic then can be
tracked with the normal mail client features like threading, marking, etc.
If several ideas are given in one mail, some of the ideas tend to get lost
and stay uncommented because the mail already looks answered if just one idea
is answered.

I agree. It is sometimes challenging to follow the discussion about a litany of suggestions and complaints. Done well, however, threading features help.

What is just as difficult, though, is following a discussion thread that defies threading. As an example, it is very difficult to follow the recent discussion on Zoomable Interfaces because the subject line changed so frequently. It would be a big help if replies were true replies and not new messages. Even the mailing list archive got the threads wrong.

http://lists.texmacs.org/wws/arc/texmacs-users/2008-10/msg00100.html

Cheers,
Rob


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• [TeXmacs] recently opened documents, Andrea Gamba, 10/18/2008
  • Re: [TeXmacs] recently opened documents, Joris van der Hoeven, 10/18/2008
    • Re: [TeXmacs] recently opened documents, Alfe, 10/20/2008
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