Jonathan M Davis Wrote: > Knowing the parent post of a particular post can be critical to understanding > that post - especially when the parent post isn't quoted in the reply.
Yeah, that's one of the few times I hit the o-t keys in my mail reader to sort by thread. Keep in mind that this information is always available! I just don't like using it by default. > Particularly with longer threads, I don't know how you could ever hope to > follow them without having a properly threaded tree structure to the posts. I've never had trouble following linear threads, even with hundreds of posts. But looking at a tree thread is almost impossible once it gets to more than about ten posts without computer assistance, and even then, it's so fractured that people repeat themselves a lot. > Even gmail - which has threading of a > sort - is completely inadequate to dealing with complex threads. Gmail sucks on so many levels. Their interface is almost unusable.