Robert LeBlanc wrote:
> As far as Gmail's threading, it's worked fine for me. I've had a thread with
> ~50 emails from 5 different people all threaded correctly. I'm not sure what
> your experience has been. Besides, Michael, you're a great guy, there is no
> need to chase kids off the lawn, just let kids be kids. :)
Must be a secret setting I don't have. In my Gmail all I see is a flat
list of "he said" e-mails. There's no sense of structure. IE there's
nothing to show that this exchange between you and I here has taken off
from a larger thread. so it looks like this (imagine each line is a
message box on the page):
Gmail's idea of threading (and in google wave too):
Original poster (lost in the mists of time) - [uug] Top Posting
....
Michael Torrie - Re: [uug] [OT] Top Posting
James Caroll - Re: [uug] [OT] Top Posting
Robert LeBlanc - Re: [uug] [OT] Top Posting
Michael Torrie - Re: [uug] [OT] Top Posting
Robert LeBlacn - Re: [uug] [OT] Top Posting
There's nothing to indicate threading at all. It's really just
organized according to a common subject heading, sorted by time. It
does not show that the message you first posted here could be the start
of a new direction while someone could reply to James and go in another
direction. This lack of threading makes Gmail very hard to use to
follow active lists like the python-list threads can be dozens of
messages long and go in several directions and I want to follow one
piece of the thread. Gmail does helpfully let you collapse related
chunks of the thread, it's still not as nice as having a full tree view
of the conversation.
Just for the record, this is e-mail threading:
Original poster (lost in the mists of time) - [uug] Top Posting
....
Michael Torrie - Re: [uug] [OT] Top Posting
James Caroll - Re: [uug] [OT] Top Posting
Robert LeBlanc - Re: [uug] [OT] Top Posting
Michael Torrie - Re: [uug] [OT] Top Posting
Robert LeBlanc - Re: [uug] [OT] Top Posting
Much easier to follow the flow. Very helpful when you find some
people's comments more valuable than others. For example, if a piece of
the thread was started by Robert LeBlanc, then I'm far more likely to
read the responses it generates than the messages that are generated by
something Michael Torrie writes.
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