little survey on email habits

[Cyborg Alpha]

Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Cyborg Alpha <cyborg.alpha.v1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Threads are good if you don't get a lot of email.
>>     
>
> It depends how you want to read that mail, and what you want to do with
> it.
>
> Personally, I find threading invaluable for my mess of a work inbox
> which probably gets ~100 mails a day.
>
> My threads are sorted by the date of the last mail in them, so it is
> still date sorted, and easy to see what's going on, and it's also
> pretty trivial to go back up the conversations.
>
>
> --
> Avi Greenbury
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>
>   
The problem for me is I often have to track three or more threads at a 
time. Having the date sort, and filter to isolate priority threads, 
allows me to do this without have to do too much scrolling to find the 
thread I want. For example, I'm bug tracking Ubuntu, as I move further 
into development, there is a possible bug, I've identified, and am 
tracking a thread for this on the tech support list - and I'm in this 
thread; all at the same time. I use TBird to segment email into 
departments (for the full scope of computer science & cybernetics) of 
which Cyborg Alpha is one project.

As for going back, important (priority) threads have theirown folder 
(isolated by a filter).