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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by throw0101b on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:07AM (#36862453)
> Cool! I didn't know threaded conversations were a concept from usenet.

Usenet and e-mail. Both message formats supported referencing the message being replied to since the early days:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc822#section-4.6

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc850#section-2.2.6

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by the_af on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:22AM (#36862673)
I wrote a lengthy reply and then deleted it because I realized that I too used threaded email conversations. I think I forgot about them because Gmail doesn't have them, and it's been ages since I used Eudora or Thunderbird. (Or text-only Pine, but I honestly cannot remember if it showed threads).
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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by F-W-M on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @03:56AM (#36874414)
GMail does not support threads?!
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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by Technetium on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:19PM (#36881291)
It's called "Conversation View" and it DOES exist! It's just disabled by default. You can find it in: Settings -> All Settings -> General.
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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by the_af on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:10PM (#36886436)
When they introduced labels they claimed threads were a thing of the past. I didn't even know you could still have them, Google certainly didn't advertise it (since they wanted us to use labels instead).
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