On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Jeremy (mailing list
box)<listbox@unix-boy.com> wrote:
> Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
>>
>> I thought 1995 was over with. Get a threaded view :)
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2009-08-03 13:21, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You have a really dry sense of humor... right?
>>>
>>> Maaaayyyybe. But top-posters make me very angry, very angry.
>>>
>> What mail client are you using? The reply on a particular message in
>> a thread isn't good enough huh?
>> Picky, picky...
>>
>
> Threaded view doesn't fix the fact that top-posting makes email discussions
> messy and hard to follow. When I have to go below a top posted reply to
> read what was replied too is a supreme pain in the ass, especially if only
> one person top posts and everyone else places their replies at the bottom.
> The top posted replies get nested weird and blow the whole flow of the
> messages into disarray.
>
> This is one of the reasons Outlook is utterly evil. By default, replies
> are top posted.
Same with gmail. Labs has an improved threaded view which will fix
this iirc. I'm using listen/ploneboard as my client, it's been
keeping things neat.
>
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