Email gripes

Posted Feb 13, 2014 17:50 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: PGP/MIME by drag
Parent article: Enigmail vs Thunderbird vs line-wrapping

Well, when their complaint is "what's all that junk?" and they never remove it long after it's known what "junk" is referring to, *that's* when it's most annoying.

Also, splay threads are ridiculous, but I blame GMail for perpetuating that madness.

Splay threads

Posted Feb 20, 2014 15:22 UTC (Thu) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] (3 responses)

OK, I’ll bite. Wikipedia has nothing on “splay threads”, and Duckduckgo & Bing only reference your post... What’s a splay thread?

Splay threads

Posted Feb 20, 2014 17:00 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

It's what I call threads where people reply to the most recent message instead of the one that makes sense (e.g., in a "who can make $event?" email, replying to the original is probably best). Coupled with never trimming replies and HTML, it makes individual messages huge.

Is there another term for it?

Splay threads

Posted Feb 23, 2014 20:10 UTC (Sun) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

the type of thing caused by the gmail interface (also very common on web forums) where there is a 'reply' window at the bottom of the page that replies to the most recent message (frequently quoting the entire thread, but hidden to the person creating the message), and people use this reply window to reply to anything in the thread.

Splay threads

Posted Feb 23, 2014 20:35 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Yep. (Not sure if you're asking for clarification or restating what I said in clearer terms.)