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I think you're on to something here. At work, a short comment in an email can very quickly build up into a large and complicated discussion. Lots of branching,

I think you're on to something here. At work, a short comment in an email can very quickly build up into a large and complicated discussion. Lots of branching, occasionally hitting reply instead of reply-all, really a nasty mess. Part of the problem could be that I'm used to gmail and at work I have to use outlook, but I digress. I think it would be really cool if once an email conversation kicks off, if I could send the entire thing to a resubj email address, and have it automatically build up the conversation up to that point. Then, the conversation could continue in resubj. If you implement this, or it is already in place and I missed it, let me know and I will start using your service immediately. edit: also, if you set up some kind of api so that I could embed conversations on other websites, that would be kinda cool.

snitko 17y ago
I'n not sure about building up a conversation up to the point. Could you be more specific? API is a good idea and it is in TODO list, but not a number one priority.
- Adlai 17y ago
  I think he means reconstructing a conversation by looking at quoted text (all the "On XYZ day, Joe Shmoe said:" stuff). If one person had been getting all the reply-alls of a conversation, he could create a discussion on your site, and forward a few of the emails. Your site would then reconstruct the quoted conversations. It's quite a fuzzily-defined feature, because people don't always quote entire messages, they can change messages, and the characters used to mark off quoted text vary between email clients. However, it would be a cool feature to implement, maybe as an optional thing.