Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: > On 09.02.25 17:26, Saul Tobin wrote: >> In my humble (and I'm guessing unpopular) opinion, collapsing reply >> history included below an email reply is an expected UI feature given >> that every email system these days needs to handle messages sent from >> Gmail. > > Google is doing a lot of things that don’t make any sense, and I’m > quite certain that GNU mailing list standards are based on a better > understanding on how email should be used than most email > communication via “normal” mailing software is.
This reply style makes sense when communicating with customer support where every time your communication lands with a different person and access to other person's archives is problematic. It is not sensible on a mailing list. You don't want everything quoted that people are supposed to be able to access anyway. > We have mailing list archives in order to preserve reply history, and > an “expected UI feature” for mailing software would be the ability to > display an email as part of a thread, or conversation. > > There’s no reason for snowballing the amount of text being sent back > and forth. Where things get really ugly is when someone quotes the weekly digest at the bottom of their mail. And this quote makes it into the next weekly digest. -- David Kastrup
