On 7/25/07, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Um... That doesn't seem to get Gmail to thread the messages at all. You're
solution is Just don't use Gmail. Duh!. That's not a valid answer to my
question. Before you suggest it, the following is also an invalid response:
use Outlook or
You are talking about flat, web forum style threading, though. What he wants
is tree style threading like in the ML archives, Slashdot comments etc.
Ortwin
On 7/26/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/25/07, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Um... That doesn't seem to get Gmail
Ehrm.. try looking at the settings, maybe you habe simply deactivated it.
Because for me it works pretty fine with the threated view.
oh, yes, and by the way, the possibility to format text and include
images/links/wathever would be really good for the average user.
On 7/25/07, Steven ** [EMAIL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not trying to prove something -- trying to give benefit of long experience
in similar situations. Email is substantially more efficient, because it is
intrinsically more powerful. For example:
8) Staying in touch directly with the community from my OpenMoko
phone in
On the other hand, via email you load everything while on a forum you choose
what to view.
The screen size argument also doesn't work too well as the Neo has 640*480
which is plenty and an official forum would obviously make sure to fit well
into that resolution.
How about continuing the
On 7/25/07, Sebastian Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not trying to prove something -- trying to give benefit of long
experience
in similar situations. Email is substantially more efficient, because
it is
intrinsically more powerful. For example:
8) Staying in
ramsesoriginal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-E-mail: loading hunderts of e-mails with questions that have been
discuted at least 300 times and hunderts of flaming e-mails, and maybe
dozends of i need this and that app e-mails, just to see that there's no
kews in the development of the
On 7/25/07, Sebastian Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ramsesoriginal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-E-mail: loading hunderts of e-mails with questions that have been
discuted at least 300 times and hunderts of flaming e-mails, and maybe
dozends of i need this and that app e-mails, just to see
with UMTS speeds.
Andreas
-- Ursprüngl. Mitteil. --
Betreff:Re: email vs forum
Von:ramsesoriginal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Datum: 25.07.2007 13:44
On 7/25/07, Sebastian Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ramsesoriginal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-E-mail: loading hunderts of e-mails
On 7/25/07, Andreas Kostyrka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The average customer won't wait for the few simple web clicks, at least
not on a device that has only a GPRS connection. The Nokia E61 browser has a
nice KB counter and it's incredible how huge current web sites have gotten.
(and there is
I've been mostly silent in this discussion (partially because it's taken me
two days to catch up on it), but I have some thoughts/questions.
The gist of the argument for email seems to be:
1. You can download all the messages and view them offline
2. Standalone email clients group messages by
On 7/25/07, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, my questions:
1. Is there a way to get Gmail to thread the messages based on who it was
in response to?
Yup, admins can set archiving at www.gmane.org. This way you will have
archiving as well as threaded view
regards
VK
Um... That doesn't seem to get Gmail to thread the messages at all. You're
solution is Just don't use Gmail. Duh!. That's not a valid answer to my
question. Before you suggest it, the following is also an invalid response:
use Outlook or Thunderbird and download all your messages via POP.
I
Ortwin Regel wrote:
The screen size argument also doesn't work too well as the Neo has 640*480
which is plenty and an official forum would obviously make sure to fit
well into that resolution.
I'm sure it will fit well...but will you actually be able to read it without
a magnifying glass?
Giles Jones wrote:
On 25 Jul 2007, at 23:09, John Seghers wrote:
I'm sure it will fit well...but will you actually be able to read
it without
a magnifying glass?
Having owned a VGA PDA with similar screen size I can say that the
resolution helps with readability. Hopefully with
John Seghers wrote:
Ortwin Regel wrote:
The screen size argument also doesn't work too well as the Neo has 640*480
which is plenty and an official forum would obviously make sure to fit
well into that resolution.
I'm sure it will fit well...but will you actually be able to read it
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:39:08PM +0200, ramsesoriginal wrote:
nice. And now explain this to your Grandmother. Because as Einstein said:
you have only understood something whe you can explain it to your
grandmother.
For you it's easy to say that you simply have to use IMAP, but the average
On 25 Jul 2007, at 23:09, John Seghers wrote:
ficial forum would obviously make sure to fit
well into that resolution.
I'm sure it will fit well...but will you actually be able to read
it without
a magnifying glass?
Having owned a VGA PDA with similar screen size I can say that the
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:45:32AM -0700, Daniel Robinson wrote:
The fact that you are subscribed to 20 different mailing lists and you would
find it difficult to read all of that information on 20 different forum's
is your issue, and it is not the responsibility of this community to
address.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, then, why not have forums for people who want them, and leave email
for people who don't want them? The thing is, it doesn't work very well in
practice. If experience is any guide, then the technically knowledgable
people will use email, and won't waste
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