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> this is more a problem with misuse and not email itself. That's true, but the vast majority of users misuse email and the vast majority of clients do not bot
by u801e 9y ago
> this is more a problem with misuse and not email itself.
That's true, but the vast majority of users misuse email and the vast majority of clients do not bother with properly threading it. So conversations become very cumbersome.
On usenet, it was easy to have threads that were hundreds of posts long with multiple conversations going on, and pretty easy to jump into one of the subthreads to post a response. Email could be the same way, but not with the way things are today.
- ktosobcy 9y agoBut usenet and email use the same technique for threading (message-ids and refs). It works like a charm in Thunderbird and Outlook for example. The problem is that this seems to complex for "regular Joe" so more and more providers are ending up with "conversation view" where they group all mails in single thread and then display it in linear way, which is "odd" to say the least…