[Gllug] Threaded email clients

Simon Morris simon.morris at cmtww.com
Wed Sep 7 15:11:20 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 09:05 +0100, John Hearns wrote:

> > That drives me mad at work - you get copied in half way through a
> > discussion without any introduction because it's all there for you
> to
> > read. True it is all there but it's out of sequence so you have to
> keep
> > moving up and down in the mail, and most of the text is usually
> > signatures anyway.
> >
> You make a valid point.
> 
> In cases like this, I think that a simple NNTP type newsgroup or a
> groupware web-type forum would be better.

It just occured to me that a good feature of a mail client would be to
create a "mailing list style HTML archive" export function so you could
export a whole thread of emails for other people to browse and keep on a
web server somewhere.

I might submit a request to Evolution for it.

~sm

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