On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:15:55PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Granted, context is much less of a concern when reading in threaded
> mode within a single mail-reading session, but some blighted souls are
> still using non-threaded MUAs, memory of the thread's content fades
> when you move on to other threads (or, heaven forbid, non-email-reading
> activities), and the context even changes to some degree when one branch
> of the thread ends and you move into another. Threading alone is not
> a complete solution to the problem of maintaining context.
Of course all of this presumes that one keeps mail around for referencing.
At several hundred messages a day in some lists I don't. If I don't read it
and need too keep it for something it gets deleted then and there. That's
what the archives are for.
Besides, if everyone had perfect threading and an infinite archive there
would be no reason to quote the entire previous thread anyway. There's just
no reason for it at all.
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