On 6 Jun 2019 at 15:11, Brian Vogel wrote:
I presume that people follow topics/threads *AND* that they read
the entire thread before they even think of responding to any single item in
it.? That's why threaded view came into existence in e-mail clients.
No, I don't. I am a member of many groups (here and on Yahoo), and other
mailing lists. Using the web for each such site is totally impractical, so I
use an email client. Furthermore, I read emails normally in a batch every
evening. In doing that I take them simply in date/time order, replying to each
one that requires it as I reach it. I rely mostly on quoting in the message to
tell me what is being replied to, as has already been discussed here, but when
I reply I have not then seen any later replies in the same thread. However, my
replies are not actually sent until I have been through the lot. This means
that very occasionally I have to go back and amend or even delete a message
waiting to be sent (I deleted one on this very topic this evening). I tihnk
achieves most of what you intend, although I am still missing on any further
replies sent after I download that day's batch of messages. I suspect not
everyone working my way would bother to do that.
Above,
that AND is not only in all caps but bold and underlined for a reason.
For those of us who read in plain text (I know I'm not the only one here), the
all caps comes through but not the bold or the underlining.
Jim Fisher
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