Ted Hilts <thilts33@telus.net> wrote: > My browser for mail is Thunderbird and Seamonkey I use for browsing. > > Thunderbird runs with threads beginning with the first issue ins the > subject line and then all successive emails related are tied together > in a descending fashion. I take this to mean that one can first see > the first issue and follow downwards at other inputs as long as the > subject remains the same. However, most businesses do just the AFAIK Thunderbird can thread even if the subject is changed. (It uses the 'In-Reply-To:' header) > opposite either leaving off the original or piling their reply in an > ascending fashion. This creates a problem for me because my mail Bleah! > client wants me to put the next message at the bottom and positions > the cursor to this will happen. Also, there are no upward threading > that I know of. But a lot of people expect a reply at the top. What You could try to use threading and sorting by descending date. > I have begun to do is tell them to go to the bottom to get at my > reply so they can first see what they have previously said which they > often forget or get it wrong. However, I also notice that many people > in the list snip out stuff so that when the next person responds it > is possible they do not have the same context and the same > information and so go off in a different direction. The netiquette is to snip *irrelevant* stuff. But this is pretty subjective. > Have I got it all wrong or are there conventions we should all be > observing. I usually respond to a part of the original not by > embedding remarks into the original email (as some do) but by copying > the part down to the bottom quoted and followed by my email > suggestion that way the original and all following emails that > preceded mine are preserved. I have observed conflicts over this I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but maybe you should read this: http://learn.to/quote (go to "This Text in English) and more general http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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