It also does a few things I hadn't specified, such as displaying email
in a full-thread nested view, (rather than one message at a time),
with quoted elements and signatures folded out of view until the user
-asks to see them.
+asks to see them. Another nice touch is that the single-line
+presentation of a thread includes the first names of participants in
+the thread, (with bold names to indicate unread messages). This
+provides some of the essential information needed for applying Joey
+Hess's [thread
+patterns](http://joey.kitenet.net/blog/entry/thread_patterns/), but
+without the tree view at this point.
[Note: I have been told that several of the above features are also
implemented in gmail. I've never tried gmail myself, since it fails to