Probably depends on how old you are. To me it was completely obvious and much, much clearer than most 'modern' user interfaces. Every person replying prefixes each line with > . Proper email clients do this automatically. This way you can tell from the number of >'s how far back on the 'stack' you have to go to know who wrote it. You start reading from the top, mentally associating an indent level (nr of >'s) with a person/email address. It's easy to follow any mail with up to say 3 or 4 different people; after that it takes some thinking sometimes, in long emails.
I'm actually surprised at the number of people here complaining about the legibility. This is absolutely basic knowledge; or maybe I'm just even older than I imagine myself to be. How can someone who can't even figure this out write software? (I realize that not everybody on this site is a programmer nowadays, but still)
I'm actually surprised at the number of people here complaining about the legibility. This is absolutely basic knowledge; or maybe I'm just even older than I imagine myself to be. How can someone who can't even figure this out write software? (I realize that not everybody on this site is a programmer nowadays, but still)