[ut3] linux client

Kevin Podbielniak k.podbielniak at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 18:57:53 EDT 2009


I haven't touched thunderbird in a while, but doesn't thunderbird have an
email threading option?

--k


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Sir Brizz <sir.brizz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I prefer emails at the top, mostly because emails tend to be quite a bit
> more lengthy than things like forum posts.
>
> It's really hard to say though. I just find that, unless you're responding
> to specific points, since emails are not typically in list view in an email
> program, it makes more sense to have what you want to say at the top.
>
> What I mean by that is, often email clients will include everything
> everyone before you said as opposed to just the person you are responding
> to. Additionally, you click to view each response instead of scrolling
> through/paging them. I personally wish there was a Thunderbird extension or
> something to make the whole experience more Gmail like, because I find that
> their conversation sorting/viewing process is a much more consistent and
> smooth flow.... but oh well :)
>
> On 4/28/09 2:26 PM, Ryan F. Barton wrote:
>
>> It's cool, it doesn't bother me that much. Maybe it should be established
>> for this mailing list, that when replying, reply to the top. Sometimes it
>> gets odd, having to catch up by reading top, then bottom, and then middle.
>>
>> Josh wrote:
>>
>>> That is an entirely different flame war there. I've seen this pop up on
>>> just about every mailing list I'm on and it always ends up split about
>>> 50/50.
>>>
>>> It's a personal preference and if it seriously bothers you that much
>>> maybe you need to get a job at the FCC and try to get it banned. You would
>>> fit in fine with those folks.
>>>
>>> Ryan F. Barton wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thunderbird also defaults to the bottom of the message when replying.
>>>> this is a standard based on forums and mailing lists alike. Its weird how
>>>> people will change this setting or scroll to the top and make room for their
>>>> reply there.
>>>>
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