On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 05:47, Tim Holmes wrote:
> Those links are all find and dandy, but not for a MAILING list. Those
> are unwritten and accepted ruls for NEWSGROUPS, which this is not.
>
> The reason why those are so accepted and enforced on news groups, is
> because 100% of all newsreaders I've used, show the original post and
> responses right there with the message. So quoting a post is really
> only for the person that reads a post, then deletes the thread. That
> would be the only need for hugely quoted message.
>
> However, mailing lists are entirely different. Some people don't
> include any of the message they're responding to, and as I've noticed in
> working envirnment, replies that come in several days AFTER the original
> message was sent, catches the person of guard. Not sure what email is
> about, so they then go searching for the message they sent.
>
> Also in the case of this mailing list, we have a lot of questions asked
> about KMail. So we know a lot of people on the list are using that, and
> of course there's pine. Neither one of these readers will sort out the
> mail into threads. So you can have the original question sent in at
> noon, the first response comes in at a 2. But in that two our time
> span, 25 other messages come in. So rather then just replying and
> hoping people can find the post it was a reply to, they add what they're
> replying to. And this is really only a courtesy for those have readers
> like this. So that's why it's placed at the bottom.
I don't mean to pick, but KMail in KDE 2.2 _does_ support threading. I agree
with your arguments, though :-)
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