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Re: A.O.L. mail problem
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Adam Bailey <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:45:26 -0600
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On 11/11/98 9:41 AM, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote...

>Better yet, tell the user NOT to REPLY but to send a NEW message -- most
>subscribers don't need to see the original if a SUBJECT: RE:
>yaddy-yaddie-yadi is used.

I can't speak for most subscribers, but I can tell you that that drives
me nuts. I get a ton of email, and can't possibly keep track of messages
simply by their subject, nor do I have any desire to start searching
through my Deleted Mail folder to see if I can find it.

Not to mention if a thread gets complicated, so that a person could be
responding to any one of a dozen messages that speak to different aspects
of a topic.


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