threaded email viewer - re: Quoting and Answering

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Jan 14 09:46:14 UTC 2006


David Timms wrote:
> shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> 
>> http://learn.to/quote
>> <snip>
>>    2. Quoting and Answering
>>    2.1 How much should I quote?
>> It is not necessary to quote the entire text of the person you respond 
>> to. A quoting should always and first of all clarify the context, 
>> enabling the reader to understand the flow of the thread. A quoting is 
>> not ment to re-post the previous article. [...]
> 
> 
> Just a query: Do any subscribers to the list use a threaded mail viewer 

You do. AFAIK all the common email clients do threading. What pains me 
is that Mozilla and Tbird (I'm sure) used to remember per-folder 
threading preferences and now seem prone to turning it off altogether.





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