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[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, November 18, 2011 20:10:26 bcs wrote:
> 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.

One of the main reasons that I use a local e-mail client to read the newsgroup 
/ mailing list is so that I can have a property tree structure, since online 
portals for e-mail all seem to suck at threading. But regardless of whether a 
particular client chooses to show the threading, the tree structure is most 
definitely there.

- Jonathan M Davis