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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: [OT] About mail clients and threadingRe: [OT] About mail clients and threading
From: Matthew Caron <matt_at_mattcaron.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:09:38 -0400 RFC 1855 Deals with other issues similar to this. It is a good read for any denizen of the eentarweb. http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html Jonas H wrote: > 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. > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Key: http://www.mattcaron.net/pgp_key.txt ~~ Matt Caron ~~Received on 2006-07-31 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |