It's because the Yahoo! group is a centralized resource, delivered
automatically to people.
As for threading, my e-mail client certainly supports it; if you're
that worried, mightn't you just try getting one that shows things in a
threaded manner?
Let's let e-mail be e-mail, and not try to use the web for it. E-mail
clients have been maturing for years, while the concept of most web
fora is "type your message in a box on a webpage".
Then again, people who use the web interface to this group are pretty
much doing the same thing. Interestingly enough, said web interface -
lo and behold - supports threading.
Asking people to add subject headers to their e-mails is one thing, but
asking them to change everything and start using a different medium to
do the exact same thing is quite another.
On Sep 11, 2003, at 8:08 PM, ater31337 wrote:
> I just don't get why so much of the circuit continues to use the
> inferior Yahoo group format when far better options are out there.
> Problems like this (among others) would not come up on a forum with
> divided topics and threading. Anyway, I'll probably keep using Yahoo
> since so many people in the circuit do, but I really hope people
> realize there are other options and migrate elsewhere.
>
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Jim Puls <jpuls_at_...>
Carnegie Mellon SCS '06