Re: "Mail" Has Fewer Yarn Commands

Mario Kratzer (Kratzer@rsrz14.hrz.Uni-Marburg.DE)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:47:08 +0200

In article <roByxkW2v/wE091yn@daina.bga.com>, you wrote:
>While reading one of a number of messages having the same Subject,
>I decided to skip the whole topic -- so I hit 'K'. Nothing happened.
>
>Turns out I was in "INBOX", which is a Folder. And 'K' only works
>for Newsgroups, not for Folders.
>
>Does the distinction in Yarn between "News" and "Mail" make sense --

I believe it does _not_.
>especially having certain facilities (e.g., 'threads') only available
>for "News", with other facilities (e.g., 'individual message delete')
>being only available for "Mail"?
>
>Given that the code to handle "threads" exists in Yarn, why should
>collections of "Mail" (i.e., Folders) *not* have the benefit of that
>way of organizing the information?
>
>mikus

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