Email notifications: attribution

Ildhund wrote: Until proper headers are introduced, would it be possible to include in the email a reference to the post (message no.) being replied to?

As a user of the web interface I don't know what email subscribers see.

Normally I include a quote such as in this post but, with long and rambling homilies, it is not easy to pick out a relevant reference.

Maybe in that case I should have preceded the message with an @

From a technical point of view what you are asking for is easy. The message object has a property telling which message is its parent so you just have to generate a link inside the email message template. Then again, adding proper headers is just as easy from a technical point of view.

Maybe. On the other hand I only use forum view and I didn't know who he was talking to either. Only when I realised this did I look at the 'in reply to' text.

I never use threaded view, and most times just tack my reply on the end. If I think it's not obvious who I'm talking to I include a brief quote or say @joe bloggs.

This is how it used to work before we had threaded view and it mostly suits me fine. On the whole just a continuous flow of posts is easier to quickly read through, with clarifications such I describe when needed.