god damn it y'all!
When you reply to a thread without naming the person to whom you are replying AND without quoting the snippet you are replying to, I have no dea to what you are responding, especially when the thread gets huge.
I don't use google Gmail, and neither the majority of the people who use this list. To gmail users, it threads your conversations. Great! you think the rest of us experience an email program just like you do. We don't!
I like my stand alone email client, god damn it. Webmail makes me vomit.
Now, if you're an authoritarian asshat who thinks everyone should use the same email program, whatever. Go play tiddly winks with man hole covers.
But if you give the tiniest shit about whether other people can follow your conversation, then please freakin' adhere to basic internet courtesy: name the person to who you are responding AND quote a snippet of the text to which you are responding.
shag