On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:32:51PM -0400, Tom Reese wrote: > > Well, if we were reading one post your idea would make sense. But we are > reading a lot of posts > > (sorted by subject and thread in a mail reader). That means that we are > following the thread and have > > some idea of what is going on. > > Not everyone reads them that way. My mail program doesn't thread anything. I > get them sorted by date and I need some context to figure out what's going > on.
Not to mention the fact that even those of us with fancy threading email programs still miss the occasional message (which is why the suggestion to include the URL of any image under discussion is a good idea). Plus, of course, some people are using email programs that break threads :-)
