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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by thesuitonym on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:09PM (#25753707)
The obvious solution here is to not merge the whole thread into your email, instead including only the parts of the message that are directly relevant.
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by ryandrake on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:37PM (#25754160)
I’d like to see email clients offer a nice one-click “rebase on top of latest” button.
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by tehjoker on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:52PM (#25754373)
Dang. I never thought of email like that, but I wonder if email+git+UI would help for complex conversations.
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by vinw on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:24PM (#25755474)
Sounds a little bit like Google Wave.
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by qwantim1 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:00PM (#25757038)
Wave seemed to me to be an unimaginative copy of other threaded comment implementations. The indentations seemed to waste valuable space on each page. Allowing anyone to edit anyone’s post seemed insecure. If I hadn’t known it was Google, I would’ve thought it to be a bad college project.
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by paranoidrobot on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:15PM (#25757577)
> Allowing anyone to edit anyone’s post seemed insecure.

Insecure in what manner?

To me it's no more insecure than a VCS - sure, anyone could edit anyone else's code, but version history was always there.

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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by qwantim1 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:16AM (#25775929)
There’s a difference between interjecting “What he was trying to say is...” and changing the words he used; those weren’t his words.
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by zikzak on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:33PM (#25755586)
Now I'm sad.
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by u801e on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:53PM (#25756430)
You should look at the git mailing list. They actually send patches via email using the git format-patch and git send-email commands and have complex discussions around some of the patches.
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by Liskni_si on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:00PM (#25755878)
It kind of does: https://public-inbox.org/README.html It's used for LKML (and many other lists) archives: https://lore.kernel.org/lists.html

(but it's read-only, there's no rebasing, people still use old-school e-mail clients)

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