On Wednesday 07 July 2010 12:22 AM, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
On 07-Jul-2010, at 12:10 AM, Rony wrote:
Hi Saswata. Mobile clients were never meant for threaded list emails. They are more for responding to any urgent query from a customer or giving a short reply to an individual's mail.
Hi Rony, Mobiles and portable devices have long moved from being a quick / emergency usage devices. They have now become in many cases, primary mode of using the internet. We use it all the time, even when in office where desktops are available.
Hi. In spite of all that, the mobile clients are not designed to edit between the original text lines and add replies below the original test. If they do, it is fine.
Few today have time to sit separately and use a desktop to reply to all mails that have accumulated during the day. Ofcourse, if we have a long voluminous report or a 10 page mail to send, we have to use a desktop or laptop.
That is the point. Every thing does not work through the mobile. Plus this being a GLUG, users are generally expected to be using a linux machine (of any kind) to post messages, unless they are facing an emergency and they have to use someone else's machine. Unlike yahoo groups or other informal mailing lists, this is an archived list that is referenced by online users and search engines. If a particular dialogue pattern is followed for the same, a wrongly formatted message breaks this harmony and messes the overall thread. It is a practice followed by many other technical support lists. They keep messages trimmed and relevant and follow the top to bottom dialogue format. It is not unique to this list only. If it is possible to do it through a mobile, its great otherwise IMO the larger interests of the list should prevail.