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[bcs]

On 11/18/2011 06:06 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> bcs Wrote:
>> And you have to acknowledge that a significant of people do see this as
>> getting it right.
>
> That's why I've had a [Tree] link in the program since almost the beginning.
>
>
>> If they are suboptimal and bad, how do you then explain that the most
>> prolific form of electronic communication has a model that is almost
>> identical to NNTP?
>
> Very few people use email sub-threads. Most emails are individual
> things that come into your box linearly. I rarely see sub threads used even
> in mailing lists.
>
> Other email threads are one level deep threads. This is the only
> view a lot of popular clients even bother supporting.
>

Weather or not a particular e-mail client chooses to present e-mails as 
a tree like structure, the medium its self has a tree like structure.

> (this does bring up something - my emails are marked as read individually.
> They are unread based on time, but read based on being open with an
> individual flag in the message. So I was wrong about that before.)