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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:52:15AM +0000, Simon Wistow wrote: > This looks like it's sort of a cross between lurker threading and the > IBM stuff Richard just did ... > > http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/288955.html 'One disturbing thing about their presentation is that making it be usable requires the software to throw away a lot of message content: they seem to be assuming that for this to look good, it'd have to recognise and strip out redundant quoted text in the messages. That's somewhat scary.' heh. not that mariachi does this, I think it just tries to find the first real line of the message for context purposes. I was assuming the threading model described there does the same thing, actually, there's no need to edit the message, just to display good context. Although my mother always complains when I reply in 'that confusing all over my message way'. I tend to top-quote or not depending on the person I'm replying to, which is bad and wrong and occasionally I forget and get it backwards and get in trouble... anyway, personally, I think you just have fundamentally different requirements for, say, mailing lists and personal messages. It's one medium, but the way of using it is completely different. I want string threading in my mailing lists, because context is very important, but I'm happy for much weaker threading for personal converstations, because they're more memorable, and most of the time it's arrival order that matters to me most. .tom
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