On 7/15/05, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
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This is a plea to all mailing list users, especially people using gmail.
PLEASE, if you are starting a new thread (a new topic for discussion), can you start a new email/message, rather than just hitting reply to an existing message and changing the topic. If you reply to an existing topic, email clients will assume that it is continuing the discussion (when it actually isn't).
While I endorse your comments, Chris, may I note that the reason I use GMail for mailing list traffic is because it is so very good at handling threads (which it calls conversations).
So long as the subject doesn't change, all unread messages are presented on a single page one after the other. Messages already read are shown in a "stacked up" manner. I keep my normal email for personal stuff, but I've transferred all of the several lists to which I subscribe onto GMail.