X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=cworth.org;a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fsup%2Fa-mail-client-for-geeks.mdwn;h=a2317cbe0ff0a91836aed31510a28b96347dd0cd;hp=54c1e93cd4923cb856959deec8972c4d40c835af;hb=037e46baab3d852806dd050475250277506b20c2;hpb=0a8af973b652cdfa30aa809586125fc5df67ed04

diff --git a/src/sup/a-mail-client-for-geeks.mdwn b/src/sup/a-mail-client-for-geeks.mdwn
index 54c1e93..a2317cb 100644
--- a/src/sup/a-mail-client-for-geeks.mdwn
+++ b/src/sup/a-mail-client-for-geeks.mdwn
@@ -89,7 +89,13 @@ the learning-based approaches).
 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