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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by globular-toast on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:32PM (#28555353)
> I'm fine with top-quoting specific lines out of long messages, but would rather have threading capabilities when I'm replying to an entire message, so readers won't have to scroll past a second copy of the message.

That's great because mail readers have supported threading for decades. It's pretty essential for using a mailing list.

Most mail readers support it, but not Microsoft ones. Somehow they managed to ruin this simple feature. This caused Google to reinvent it in the early 2000s and announce it like it was an innovation of their own.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by nyanpasu64 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:56PM (#28555722)
The reason I brought it up is because when I read mailing list archives, I see both threading, and certain messages which top-quote previous messages multiple layers deep. Deeply nested top-quoting is inconvenient for me to mentally parse.
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