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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: [OT] About mail clients and threading[OT] About mail clients and threading
From: Jonas H <rasher_at_rasher.dk>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:26:32 +0200 My mail client (Mozilla Thunderbird) and countless others display mail conversations as trees, with replies listed below the mail they are replies to in some way, such that the flow of the conversation is visually apparent, and mails that relate to each other are grouped together. This is a great help when dealing with a large-ish amount of mails in a mailing list like this. This requires, however, that replies are marked as such, and this is where the blessing becomes a curse. For some reason (and I'm not blaming anyone here, there might be a million reasonable explanations), many users on this list use the "reply" button very liberally, which results in threads that jump from topic to topic, because unrelated mails are marked as replies to each other (One such example is the "HTML manuals available" thread, which by no contains no less than 5 different, unrelated topics of conversation). So if you want to start a new topic, use the "New mail" button, or "Write" or whatever it's called in your mail client of choice. If you want to reply to a mail, please use the reply button. This way, I (and probably others) get to retain my sanity. -- Jonas H rasher(at)rasher(dot)dkReceived on 2006-07-30 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |