Re: [Pan-users] Readability suggestion. Feature request.

[Stephen Cofer]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:02:10 +0200
Maurizio Colucci <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> Please take a time and compare the readability of current pan with
> Agent.  Suppose I want to find the reply of John to my message:
> 
> Pan:
> 
> 
> Hello! How are you! This is the title.                   me
>    Re: Hello! How are you! This is the title.            jack
>       Re: Hello! How are you! This is the title.         frank
>    Re: Hello! How are you! This is the title.            frank
>       Re: Hello! How are you! This is the title.         john
>       Re: Hello! How are you! This is the title.         me
>          Re: Hello! How are you! This is the title.      jack
>             Re: Hello! How are you! This is the title.   jack
>             Re: Hello! How are you! This is the title.   jack 
>          Re: Hello! How are you! This is the title.      frank   <<< that's it
>    Re: Hello! How are you! This is the title.            john
> 
> 
> 
> Agent:
> 
> Hello! How are you! This is the title.                   me
>    jack
>       frank
>    frank
>       john
>       me
>          jack
>             jack
>             jack 
>          frank   <<< that's it
>    john
> 
> 

My 2 cents: if this gets implemented, please have a setting to turn it off.  
Many people seem to like this, but I personally hate it and was one of the 
things that irritated me to no end in Agent.  It made the actual thread 
structure kind of hard to see due to the varying name lengths, plus it is my 
belief that a certain field should only contain one type of information 
(Subject contains subject, name contains name).

Like I said, many people seem to like this structure, so I am not opposed to it 
being implemented.  Please just have the ability to switch back to the standard 
view for those of us who are bothered by it. :)

-- 
Stephen