Re: "plain old ASCII text is a barrier to communications"
Yeah it looks the same but can end up being mindbogglingly frustrating to catch up on if you jump in mid thread.
I've been involved in comparatively simple stuff where email threads have got out of hand.
It's especially problematic if say you have an email thread that is currently n emails long and someone replies to email n - 3 or something. It fucks the thread hard. Also the way mail clients handle things can get confusing. We've all see Re: Re: Re: Fw: Re: Re: subjects before.
Trouble is, email is linear but the conversations happening in it aren't necessarily linear.
Email is fine one to one, but it sucks giant hairy balls for many to many.
I think at the very least we need more than RE: and FW: tags to give us a fighting chance at building new ways to display "multiplayer" mail threads in a more cohesive manner.
Adding markdown to email clients would help as well.
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