Hi Peter (Lebbing) Depending on one's point of view, the e-mail client UI is either "behind the scenes" or "the scene".
My PoV is that everything that is necessary to display the e-mail to my vision, is "behind the scenes". That includes all activity from start to end, including what the e-mail client does to extract raw text (headers/body) and make it look pretty to my eyes. The UI is "the scene" imho. Peter, remember please, most end users are unlikely to have your in depth appreciation of the RFC universe. OTOH, most end users can click on the (date received/From/Subject/To/et cetera) columns to easily, efficiently, and quickly rearrange their inbox in a new order. Compare for example the current "Why hashed ..." thread ... From To Doug Barton Robert J. Hansen Jerome Baum Doug Barton Doug Barton Jerome Baum FWIW, I'm a masochist ... my inbox has several thousand recent messages. If the above messages were scattered through my inbox, but looked like this: From To Doug Barton gnupg-users@gnupg.org Jerome Baum gnupg-users@gnupg.org Doug Barton gnupg-users@gnupg.org I could easily pull them, as well as other gnupg-users@gnupg.org, together simply by clicking on the "To:" column header. Gerry P.S.: FWIW, gnupg-users@gnupg.org is a "list", not zig zag exchanges among individuals. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users