On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote:
> When a message-response thread goes non-linear, people should change > the subject to indicate that it is off on a different topic. As I just > did. Otherwise the whole point of a mail thread becomes irrelevant. You're conflating temporal linearity and topicality. Suppose there's a 10-message thread on the PDML, which has (amazingly) stayed relevant to the original topic. I check my email and read the 10 messages. In message 2 of 10, you make a point to which I wish to respond, still on topic. I reply to message 2 of 10. My reply SHOULD be shown visually as a reply to #2, not simply as message #11 in the thread. My favorite mail reader, mutt, did this quite clearly. I now use Gmail's web interface, and generally like it, but hate that it does not have this hierarchical threaded view. (Also: Changing a subject line does not and should not break a thread on its own, at least to those of us who are disciples of the Church of References Header Primacy. Again, mutt got this right and showed the new subject line, but within the thread hierarchy.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
