Imagine if Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo were incapable of grouping email conversations together. Without conversation grouping, or email threading, you might be able to sort by subject, but the software would not understand that “RE:” and “FW:” should be disregarded. The forwards would be in one group, the replies would all follow, and the original message could be anywhere. If two conversations had identical subjects, even if they were between entirely different people, you would need to manually read the email contents to discover which message belongs to which conversation.
If you had an alternative, would you ever consider using the email software described above?
It does sort of boggle the mind that there are people in the eDiscovery industry who just want to look at email in chronological order.
No, you don’t, you just don’t know how else to ask for it. It should be threaded, so that you can deal with one conversation at a time. Studies have shown, time and time again, that we work much faster when we can focus on one topic at a time. Why would we purposefully do something that makes us flit around from subject to subject on every email?
Want to know what Hollywood is really up to these days with all of their legislative agendas? Check out Cory Doctorow’s piece on the three part Hollywood agenda, and how close they are to putting the pieces into place to achieve it. (Thanks to Doc for the pointer.) Reading today’s LangaList. I’m tempted to give…
To be honest, I’ve not paid much attention to the upcoming availability of Facebook’s Instant Articles for all publishers. I know the big “plus” seems to revolve around advertising revenue, and since I don’t have ads at all, that doesn’t appeal to me. I am somewhat curious about whether Instant Articles could grow an audience…
So, maybe if you have business data that is required to be protected and kept private, don’t cross the US border with a device that has it stored, huh? “A US appeals court has ruled that Customs and Border Protection agents can conduct in-depth searches of phones and laptops, overturning an earlier legal victory for…
The first line of the first lesson is one I totally agree with: “It’s said that major events don’t so much change our culture as they simply reveal what was already there.” I feel like Jeff should have reminded himself of that first line when writing the rest of it, because yes, it’s true that…
Yeah, I think we can just go ahead and assume that if there is digital information out there, it’s been hacked. Seventy-three percent of Americans have been victims of cyber crimes, while 90 percent of US-based businesses have experienced unanticipated online breaches. Which begs the question, why do organizations keep so much data if they…
Sarah makes a valid point. Sure, during the COVID pandemic it’s nice that you can go into a restaurant and scan a QR code to view the menu instead of handling physical menus. I worked in a restaurant kitchen in college, I know how nasty some menus can get. On the other hand, are we teaching people to trust something they shouldn’t trust?
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