On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:48 AM, R - elists <lists07 at abbacomm.net> wrote: > >> But filters tend to be stupid as well. And once you are involved in >> a conversation you should have a certain responsibility to >> follow it to the bitter end. Filters mostly don't understand >> that (but gmail will push a reply to your own message into >> the 'important' view). >> > > i hear ya Les > > thing is, the term plonk from a most recent post reminded me what i am > looking for, ie killfile > > ...i just have to figure out how to best implement. > > now, please dont get me wrong, ive made a mistake or three on lists, yet > gave apology. > > i am suprised that more folks havent spoken up about favorite "threaded > email readers" or has everyone just gone to Thunderbird or other similar? > > reason: some say changing subject or hijacking messes things up... Threads really only matter when responses are slow enough that you forget the context - in which case you probably aren't all that interested anyway. With thunderbird I normally don't use a threaded view but sometimes flip to it (which is sort of awkward except on a Mac where you can use OS facilities to map a key to a multi-step operation). But in gmail I do like their normal 'conversation' presentation where the previously read messages are mostly hidden but accessible with a click and the unread messages are all opened together with large blocks of quoted text mostly hidden. I'm used to reading 'backwards' in time order so I know what has already been answered, but the gmail view is a little nicer to see the new portion in order and in context. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com