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From: Brian Hayden <bhayden@umn.edu>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:43 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Childless noselect mailboxes
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On Dec 29, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Mark Crispin wrote:
>
> Correction: crappy clients display \NoSelect mailboxes in a  
> confusing way.

Has anyone studied this from a user perspective? I suspect that you'd  
have to come up with an interaction method that is both new and  
intuitive (something that is quite the rare gem) to have the concept  
have any meaning to the user in a client interface -- \NoSelect seems  
quite foreign to everything else they encounter on a computer system  
(or in any other interface, for that matter).

It's possible that every client is crappy, I guess, but in fifteen  
years working on this stuff I've never seen a user that didn't trip  
over it, from Pine to Outlook and everything in between.

-Brian

