Re: [Evolution] Reading emails and threading

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 12:04 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 09:51 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > Threading has nothing to do with including quoted messages in
> > > replies, either directly or as attachments. That's something else
> > > entirely. You can do that if you want, but it's not threading.
> >
> > This!
> >
> > Threading is unrelated to quoting other than by cultural
> > practices.  Notice that this messages is threaded, my response is
> > below the
> > relevant text of the previous message, and all extraneous stuff has
> > been deleted.
>
> In my opinion, what you state in the second sentence of the preceding
> paragraph
> isn't threading, but instead is proper reply behavior when
> participating in a tech
> mailing list. Thank you for doing it. I wish everybody would.

Me too, but many people have been brainwashed into the broken practices
promoted by Microsoft Outlook and now accepted by most of the corporate
world as "normal".

poc