I know I said I was out of this conversation, but this off the original topic so I want to make myself clear on what I actually meant here.
E-mails have unique identifiers, and replies include information in the header as to the identifier(s) of the original messages. Thus, if you have the messages (or access to a service archiving them) you could reconstruct the entire thread from just a single message. A protocol or format could even be created to designate where and how other messages are quoted, without actually including the content. This would be especially useful for very large messages and replying to multiple messages at once. Always there is room to move forward, so find the door that need's unlocked and break it down. On 5/5/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Calvin Spealman wrote: > <snip> > > >it isn't like the bandwidth is anything at all > >compared to the bloated headers and redundant repeating of messages in > >every reply. > > > > > <snip> > -- is a good way to control redundancy factor > > And sometimes someone skips the original(s), and the later msgs become > interesting, and "someone" needs to catch up. > > Sigh, no soution is ever perfect. > rgh. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
