Re: OT: The joys of email (was: Re: CONLANG/ZBB crossover)

FROM: Dent, Presley
TO: All employees
RE: Fist of death

A gentle reminder that failure to control one's fist of death is
grounds for termination.

On 5/11/07, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> >Thread internal is what's being discussed here. Threaded forums do
> >exist;
>
> Yeah, I do kno about them.
>
>
> >This style of forum more-or-less eliminates replies to more than one
> >message in one post, which makes it much easier to follow discussions;
>
> IMO that depends on the style of discussion. It fits when the discussion
> branches hevvily, and each reply is exactly in reply to the arguments of a
> previous poster. But when the discussion remains focused on a central issue,
> i.e. you have similar or related points made by multiple posters, I prefer
> composite replies. Say someone asks help on some subject, let's say hir
> conlang, and receives multiple slightly differing suggestions? If the
> original poster would wish to then think acaps* how the suggestions compare
> and what che's going to go with, there would be no "correct" place at all
> for such a message in a "tree-shaped" discussion. There's no room for
> synthesis!
>
> An ordered graph structure would eliminate that problem while being still as
> easy to follo as a tree, but *that* I have never seen actually implemented.
> Most likely because deducing the correct placement of each node would have
> to be done on the basis of the message's contents.
>
>
> >As for threading with email and usenet, mail/usenet user agents don't
> >use the message content to work out what's a reply to what. Each email
> >is accompanied by a number of headers: (...)
> >All email clients that are at least half-good will add
> >the In-Reply-To header; your email client isn't so your emails don't
> >show up threaded in mine.
>
> >Tristan.
>
> Actually, I believe that's because I'm in nomail but have still been
> replying via email (bit of a story there...) I didn't realize this was
> causing any problems, because the arkives seem to be organized on the basis
> of the subject line alone. I'm sending this one via the listserv interface,
> so that should be different now. Still switching the subject to "OT: The
> joys of email" tho; but hopefully that won't mangle anything?
>
> John Vertical
> *Online adaptation for "think aloud". :)
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>