Read and Unread is always the basic state that most email client have. The problem isn't that this classification is wrong but because the notification system notifies with only those two states assumed.
I've got a ton of unread email which i consider to read when i get the time so i leave them in the unread state. So it's not actually an unread unread state but a perhaps-will-read unread state meaning that i shouldn't be notified that a new mail has arrived. Most email client doesn't understand this and keeps notifying me that i have new mail inferencing by my unread emails.
So, what i think is that there should be 3 states Read, Unread and New.
(or perhaps i don't know how to set my email client to behave like that :)
Posted
Dec 10 2003, 01:00 PM
by
bkchung