Nonunderwater mail-reading maintenance technical question

[David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>]

Oh, I hope people in Germany don't have to pay extra for long Subject lines.

Before he left us to make loads of money, Rick L. suggested:
>Idea: why not use a mail filter to redirect all psubs mail into a separate file?  This way you can
>scan and not have to sort,
>scan and not have to read, delete en masse or selectively, or ignore it as long as you want.

I have been doing this for a long time, with the filtering capability of Eudora Light 3.1. But I recently started using a new newsreader, MacSoup, which has this really cool graphical display which "maps" discussion threads, drawing a sort of tree connecting replies to the original message, branching whenever there's multiple replies to the same one, and so on. Even the one I used to use, YA Newswatcher, would group messages together by their subjects. This has me wondering. Most of you are probably using Microsoft software, statistically speaking. Does it do anything like this? Or are you looking at what I'm looking at -- a long listing of messages with random subjects in no particular order? It would sure make more sense to read (or skip) all the day's messages in a given thread, in order, before going on to the next one.


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David
buchner@wcta.net
http://customer.wcta.net/buchner
Osage MN USA