http://leefalin.com/blog/2007/07/09/the-real-problem-with-mail-clients-use-cases/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:53:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://leefalin.com/blog/2007/07/09/the-real-problem-with-mail-clients-use-cases/#comment-73 Chris Hanson Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:36:11 +0000 http://leefalin.com/?p=82#comment-73 Believe it or not, this is stuff that has been worked on a lot in Usenet newsreaders for a long time. That's where the "dash-dash-space-return" convention for signatures came from, for example: Unison renders signatures that are prefixed with that standard prefix in light gray (and always generates signatures itself with that prefix), while Google Groups can elide them altogether. Similarly, Usenet is where a lot of the quoting conventions used in modern email came from, and Google Groups is at least smart enough to collapse quoted text unless it's part of a back-and-forth exchange (e.g. inline quoting as opposed to full top-quoting or full bottom-quoting). Believe it or not, this is stuff that has been worked on a lot in Usenet newsreaders for a long time. That’s where the “dash-dash-space-return” convention for signatures came from, for example: Unison renders signatures that are prefixed with that standard prefix in light gray (and always generates signatures itself with that prefix), while Google Groups can elide them altogether. Similarly, Usenet is where a lot of the quoting conventions used in modern email came from, and Google Groups is at least smart enough to collapse quoted text unless it’s part of a back-and-forth exchange (e.g. inline quoting as opposed to full top-quoting or full bottom-quoting).

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