On Thu, 2002-10-10 08:08:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wonder if you'd do us the courtesy of explaining this problem instead > of 'blackholing' people who are completely unaware of any problem. > > I have used quite a few email readers, outlook, incredimail, lotus notes > etc and I guess none of them are threaded. I also participate in quite > a few email lists, and NONE of them have mentioned any problem such as > the one to which you allude.
I can tell from how your reply was formatted that you are a Lotus Notes user. My sympathies. It's a fine groupware/collaboration product, but the things it does to email can't be discussed in polite company. Note: I work for IBM (which owns Lotus) and refuse to use it for email even though it is our company mandated email client. Fortunately, as a highly respected Linux support engineer within our company I can get away with being a rebel and thereby retain my sanity by using a decent email client: mutt. One of the problems with Lotus Notes is that it does not include a in-reply-to or references header. Thus making it impossible to properly place your reply in a threaded display of the discussion topic. It also mangles whitespace in the body of the message, the standard email templates encourage people to "top post" (i.e., put their reply at the top of the quoted material, encourages people to include the entire original message rather than trimming it to just the portion being responded to, etc. But the problem Michael Nordstr�m alluded to is one that occurs independent of the email client used by the sender. The problem is that people will sometimes, while reading a message, have a thought completely unrelated to the topic of discussion. But instead of creating a new message, with a new subject, they simply reply to the message they are reading. Arghh! I agree with Michael: it's too annoying for words and incites thoughts of applying a clue-by-four (Americanism for whacking someone with a piece of wood nominally two by four inches in cross section). _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
