All well and good, but isn't it a really easy thing to just start a new email too? Everybody wins?
Bob On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > > I have said this before, and I don't mean to come off as rude, > > but I read these posts in a threaded format. When someone > > replies to a post but changes the subject line to create a new > > post, it still remains part of the same thread in my email app, > > and now I have 2, 3 and 4 subjects at times in the same thread. > > Respectfully, IMNSHO this isn't a failing of the email user but of the > designers of email clients and list archive software. > > Header-based threading relies on information the user can't touch. Not > good. Let people be free to use the things they can touch to express > themselves as they like, and let machines do the drudgery of sorting it out. > > Most humans never see email headers, nor should they. They're for routing > and tracing, but sorting is done in the human mind by subject line, and > machines should follow human patterns if they are to be useful for people and > not the other way around. > > I have a custom list reader for this list, and naturally it sorts by subject > line, as it should. ;) When I reply it creates a new email, which means that > old-world header-based threading won't be able to figure it out, as though > somehow it can't find the subject line. > > Sorry, Mr. Wieder, I know that bugs you too. I'd do something else if that > something else was as useful. :) > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
