Email requires all participants to play nice and write their emails with subjects and quotes in a manner that other people and their mail clients can work with, read and understand.
However, many clients have different defaults and many people have different preferences.
Do I quote above or below? Does the subject line start with RE:, RE:RE:RE:? Maybe my client is setup in a different locale and the reply is prepended with SV: or what have you. Maybe a participant hates RE: and removes them from the subject line, or write the subject line as the main point of the reply.
I've never been able to setup a client to show me what is going on on a mailing list or show me nice tree structures that could help me follow the different branching a discussion goes off in. I often get mails in the middle of a discussion and can't trace it back, and read the thread from the beginning. And it is every client for himself and I'm the idiot for not having everything setup nicely and everybody else is smug about it.
The nice thing about closed standards is that all clients follow the same rules. When you click reply, you are replying to that message, no matter what you write in your subject line.
However, many clients have different defaults and many people have different preferences.
Do I quote above or below? Does the subject line start with RE:, RE:RE:RE:? Maybe my client is setup in a different locale and the reply is prepended with SV: or what have you. Maybe a participant hates RE: and removes them from the subject line, or write the subject line as the main point of the reply.
I've never been able to setup a client to show me what is going on on a mailing list or show me nice tree structures that could help me follow the different branching a discussion goes off in. I often get mails in the middle of a discussion and can't trace it back, and read the thread from the beginning. And it is every client for himself and I'm the idiot for not having everything setup nicely and everybody else is smug about it.
The nice thing about closed standards is that all clients follow the same rules. When you click reply, you are replying to that message, no matter what you write in your subject line.