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.
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