Chad wrote: > And now my ignorance: > When people talk about conversation-style email, I had always figured > that was threading. Now I read a lot about people hating Gmail's web > interface because it doesn't thread. I guess I am saying... I don't > know what threading is and how it differs from Gmail's > "Conversation-Style" email reading. Anyone care to point me to a > resource showing the difference or explain it to me?
Threaded means each e-mail references a unique header id of the e-mail it's replying to. This allows a nested display of e-mails that looks something like the image I've attached to this e-mail. With true treading, it's easy to see the flow of the conversation, who started it, etc.
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