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sorting

I use Microsoft Entourage (sort of the Mac equivalent of Microsoft Outlook) for my e-mail at work. I was cleaning out my “Sent Items” folder this morning and, to help prioritize my deletions, sorted my messages by file size. Instead of simply organizing my e-mails by filesize, Entourage also grouped them under vague headers:

• Enormous
• Huge
• Very Large
• Large
• Medium
• Small

I guess this is useful, because in three-pane view, there’s no indicator of a message’s actual file size unless you click on the message itself and look at the size of its attachments. Still, it would be nice to have that extra field displayed if I choose to turn it on, like I can in, say, Mac Mail. If I’ve chosen to sort my messages by size, it makes sense that actual size information would be displayed.