On 11/18/2011 06:06 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
bcs Wrote:
And you have to acknowledge that a significant of people do see this as
getting it right.
That's why I've had a [Tree] link in the program since almost the beginning.
If they are suboptimal and bad, how do you then explain that the most
prolific form of electronic communication has a model that is almost
identical to NNTP?
Very few people use email sub-threads. Most emails are individual
things that come into your box linearly. I rarely see sub threads used even
in mailing lists.
Other email threads are one level deep threads. This is the only
view a lot of popular clients even bother supporting.
Weather or not a particular e-mail client chooses to present e-mails as
a tree like structure, the medium its self has a tree like structure.
(this does bring up something - my emails are marked as read individually.
They are unread based on time, but read based on being open with an
individual flag in the message. So I was wrong about that before.)
