On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:48 PM, jnewman <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I've been receiving a lot of emails where all I see is a statement > > from the person posting in (I assume) the forum but not quoting any of > > the test that he or she is responding to. This makes it pretty much > > impossible for me to say much of anything in context so I'm just > > deleting these without much attention. > > > > So far today it seems like this must be at least 50% of the traffic. > > > > Are others seeing this also? Is anything about this caused on my end? > > > > If this is happening because the default in the forum is to not > > quote the previous part of the thread I can completely understand > > that. That's the way a forum should work since you can see the post > > immediately above. However if that sort of post in the forum is sent > > to the email list without any context it's almost useless here I > > think. > > > This is a fundamental difference between Forums and the mailing list. In the forum, replies are always shown in ascending order by post time, so it is not necessary to quote a post above it. > > Mailing list users could work around this by configuring your email client to show posts in a threaded view. Thunderbird supports this. > > Ahh, the joys of merging two distinct discussion communities into one pot. Who's idea was this again? > gmail does this with the 'conversation view', but there's something wrong with the email headers coming from the forum. I frequently (unless the replier is replying from the ML) receive emails with a 'Re: XYX' subject and the reply text (with no other text). I would be fine without the quoted text that is being replied to if the emails were linked up as a conversation, but that doesn't happen. I'm not familiar with all of this, so I don't know the root of the problem. -- James Hawkins
