Hi, How about when when some one reads a message but, they don't know who the person was actually replying to? For example, your post that I'm replying to now. I don't know if your response was triggered by my response or Karens. But either which way, I think its asking a bit much for hundreds of people to change how they view, compose, and reply to their mail just to please you. Its much easier for you to change than for all of us to conform to you, no?
Just my 2 cents. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 1, 2013, at 10:20 PM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > OKay, I accept there are different views on this and I'm not going to get my > way. But I can't help continuing the discussion now it's started. > > I already have a separate mailbox just for this list and server side > rules/filters that all messages go straight to this mailbox. Even so, without > digest mode I'd still have so many conversations I'd continuously need to be > deleting. I suppose I need to add here that I'm not the type of person who > can let a mailbox fill up with old or unread messages. I keep my mailboxes > more or less empty, and archive messages I need for later reference in. > > For people who struggle to pick up the context when coming late to a thread, > here are some suggestions: > • Instead of deleting messages, archive them. This way, when you > get a new message in that thread the older ones will show up along side, so > long as you have messages set to view by conversation in Mail preferences. > • Search for missing posts in your trash folder. > • Read the entire conversation on the web interface. > > For those who don't quote the entire conversation in their posts, I agree it > is a good idea to include enough context that people can understand your > post. Quoting particular passages can be a good idea too. However, including > the entire conversation in every single post seems a hugely inefficient way > of doing things to me. Especially given that people often quote other people > who are quoting themselves quoting other people, so the same message is > quoted over and over again. But I accept people disagree with me here. > > Happy posting! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
