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Originally Posted by elija I'm guessing you have never had an email conversation with 3 or 4 people at the same time. As an example, try using these forums in ...
  1. 10-02-2010 #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by elija View Post
    I'm guessing you have never had an email conversation with 3 or 4 people at the same time. As an example, try using these forums in "threaded mode" for a while...
    These forums ARE in threaded view. It is trying to view them in a non-threaded view that would be a mess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by trutheality View Post
    These forums ARE in threaded view. It is trying to view them in a non-threaded view that would be a mess.
    Nope. They are in linear view. Click "Display Modes" and then "Switch to threaded mode"
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    lol... I personally see no reason that we should all agree that one viewing method is better than the other, but I did think that everyone would agree that having the ability to turn conversation view ON or OFF makes Gmail a better webmail client. Seeing as how only those that don't like conversation view have said the new option is a good thing, I suppose that's not the case.

    In the end, this feature gives us more control over how we each like to view our stored emails, and I see nothing wrong with that. Surely even Google is wondering why it took them so long to make this available.
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    Quote Originally Posted by elija View Post
    Nope. They are in linear view. Click "Display Modes" and then "Switch to threaded mode"
    Oh wow that is a horrible invention. Mainly because you only see one message at a time.

    BUT the forums' "threaded view" does not correspond to Gmail's conversation view. Gmail's conversation mode looks like the forums' "linear mode", and the standard email view would be like having each comment be its own thread, so you would, for example, go to The Coffee Lounge and see a bunch of messages labeled "Re: Gmail: conversation view now optional," intertwined with comments from other threads. That would not be fun.
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    I think Google completely misses the point both with Conversation View and without it. All decent conventional E-mail clients (Mutt, Gnus, Kmail, Evolution to name a few) provide a different kind of Threading View: they normally join messages in a thread by the In-Reply-To: field (I hope I remember it right), which keeps together only those messages, which were indeed meant to be together.

    For me, it is extremely frustrating, when two different people send me an E-mail with the topic "Hello" and Gmail groups them in one thread. On the other hand, my inbox would be a complete mess without threading. I could never realize why would Gmail be so stubborn with this unconventional and uncomfortable way of sorting messages into threads


    Of course, I am not trying to impose my opinion, just saying it aloud
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