threaded email viewer - re: Quoting and Answering

[Thomas Taylor]

On Thursday 12 January 2006 02:05, 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
> ? Since subscribing, I realized it's an option that I normally don't use
> for email. But for this back and forthing, it is really helpful: it is
> easy to ignore a thread I'm not interested in, yet keep all the previous
> messages in each thread together, so when further Q/A/statements are
> posted, they are automatically grouped with the original thread. It also
> means a quoted part needs only be seriously minimal. When I was
> accessing the list through the monthly archive on redhat or aims group,
> it was terrible trying to match together bits of the same thread from a
> long web page of post links. Google groups used to showing threading,
> but their new version hides that by default : (  Silly when it really
> ideal for this sort of information, so that you don't need to keep
> reading the same crud over and over.
>
> If there is anyone willing to let us know what method you use to read
> the list, please reply to this thread ? And also whether your method
> supports threading ? Is there any web mail servers that can provide
> threaded message lists ? Can ms lookout do it (haven't used it for 4
> years) ?

My preference is Kmail (under kde 3.5).  Threading is set in preferences and 
handled very well including mail lists.

Tom

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Tom Taylor
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