My browser for mail is Thunderbird and Seamonkey I use for browsing.
Thunderbird runs with threads beginning with the first issue ins the
subject line and then all successive emails related are tied together in
a descending fashion. I take this to mean that one can first see the
first issue and follow downwards at other inputs as long as the subject
remains the same. However, most businesses do just the opposite either
leaving off the original or piling their reply in an ascending fashion.
This creates a problem for me because my mail client wants me to put the
next message at the bottom and positions the cursor to this will
happen. Also, there are no upward threading that I know of. But a lot
of people expect a reply at the top. What I have begun to do is tell
them to go to the bottom to get at my reply so they can first see what
they have previously said which they often forget or get it wrong.
However, I also notice that many people in the list snip out stuff so
that when the next person responds it is possible they do not have the
same context and the same information and so go off in a different
direction.
Have I got it all wrong or are there conventions we should all be
observing. I usually respond to a part of the original not by embedding
remarks into the original email (as some do) but by copying the part
down to the bottom quoted and followed by my email suggestion that way
the original and all following emails that preceded mine are preserved.
I have observed conflicts over this issue and I am beginning to wonder
what the list standard is on this matter -- or should be.
Thanks, Ted
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