Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > We keepers of the in-line posting flame are a shrinking minority, > > now dominant only on Very Geeky lists. > > > > I have to agree. It's sad, but it's true. > > But this is not only Gmail's fault. Long before it existed The Proper > Way of replying was dying. Outlook and Hotmail (which are so bad that > even the most geeky user probably could not send a properly formatted > e-mail with them) are probably to blame. > > One thing, however, that is entirely Gmail's fault is showing e-mails as > a list, not a tree with ramifications. Along with the "reply" box in the > bottom, this causes unaware users to reply to the last message, even if > they are replying to what was said in a previous message. (Not a problem > in this list, but I see this happen in other places.)
The horrors of GMail pale in comparison to the damage that can be done to a mailing list by one person replying from Yahoo mail. I can't even describe the carnage, it's too horrifying. -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
