On Friday, November 18, 2011 20:10:26 bcs wrote: > 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.
One of the main reasons that I use a local e-mail client to read the newsgroup / mailing list is so that I can have a property tree structure, since online portals for e-mail all seem to suck at threading. But regardless of whether a particular client chooses to show the threading, the tree structure is most definitely there. - Jonathan M Davis
