List etiquette

[Chris Aitken]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 07:51:41PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
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>>What is 'threading'? I know what top-posting is but not threading...
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>Threading is arranging emails by thread, which is to say, arranged
>chronologically by relationship.
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>Does that make sense?
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A little out of my league. I understand enough to know not to change the 
subject now. Thanks.

Chris

> For mailing lists or personal conversations with
>iterations of emails, it makes a lot of sense to organize by thread,
>rather than by date.  There are many email clients that permit
>threading, but no all of them turn it on by default.  If you aren't
>using threading, then you won't notice if your mailer (or anyone else's)
>breaks this (admittedly fragile) structure.
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