Maybe people who care enough to use a desktop mail client just have better ways to organize their stuff? This is what's so perplexing about this argument, and

Maybe people who care enough to use a desktop mail client just have better ways to organize their stuff? This is what's so perplexing about this argument, and I'm clearly not articulating what I think matters here, unless I'm just getting downmodded for my opinion. Because I care enough to use a desktop mail client, and also dislike top-posting in most cases, and am pretty anal about filing. But conversation view is a great help with all of these areas, and they're where I most keenly feel its absence. And -- if we can set Tofu aside for a moment as a social problem -- I don't see that adding conversations would detract from the email client experience in any way. Sure GMail did it in a polarising use-it-or-leave fashion, but as an optional extra it makes a great deal of sense to me. I mean, seriously, consider the other remotely similar forms of digital conversation we have, like instant messaging. Imagine that an IM client forced you to look in a separate place to see what you'd said, and only showed you a single post from your correspondent at once. It's ludicrous. Similarly, compare the iPhone's (or any other threaded) SMS app to the old standard of single-text-at-a-time. There's simply no comparison. So, no, I don't think it's that "people who care" have better ways, though I strongly suspect they believe they do. Oh well. Perhaps a GMail API will come along eventually.