On 2013-11-20 17:45 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 02:26:21PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: > > > An attribution wouldn't have hurt but it's plain to see that Jon > > was replying to Emilio's message, not Ron's. Or don't mailers > > show threads any more ? > > Mutt, the one I use, does; but I don't keep *all* the messages > in a thread. I must have deleted the message that Jonathan > referred to at some stage. I think this adds more credence to > the point that providing context and attribution would > certainly help avoid conversations like this one.
Agreed with your conclusion but I'll add one of my own : deleting mail has a cost. :-> A possible alternative is flagging. "F" to mark the important posts, "/~F" and "n" to find them, "l~F" to hide the others. -- André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> bugs.debian.org, food for your spambots. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131122152849.ga14...@aym.net2.nerim.net
