Yahoo! mail irritation
 

My ISP, a NZ Telecom company, allied itself to Yahoo ! sometime ago, and Yahoo! have now decided to group e-mails that are “replied” to into so-called “threads”, which I find helpful in some respects, but irritating in others.


I have spent the last few weeks away from home, and still am, reliant on my ISP webmail rather than Thunderbird – many public WiFi outlets won't allow 3rd party e-mail client programmes – and writing to, say ,Tom, Dick, Harry and Fred, all of whom have made comments which appear in chronological order in any particular thread, so far so good, I only have to open one e-mail to see the lot, but …."Harry" made some comments slightly unrelated to a thread subject that I know I may want to refer back to some time in the future, but as it doesn't appear as a stand alone e-mail received I will have to try to remember what that thread subject was about, and when, to be able to find his specific e-mail, rather than re-arrange my e-mail list alphabetically and scan through to his name to check just his old e-mails, as I'm used to doing, to pick out the one I want.



Why do THEY have keep CHANGING things !! Or am I missing something ?

Hi,

I think there is an option to turn off threaded mail in Yahoo. If you look in the top right there is a drop down, one of which is mail options - In my case I switched to basic mail which removes most of the 'enhancements'.

HTH

EG

I also dislike 'threaded' email and have it on a couple of my accounts, but it is usually possible to revert to normal.

What I object to even more is others making decisions for me that I should like to make myself!

There is also an option to go to basic mail.

Its the dogs danglies, fast does what you want, and just works.

Thanks for the above, I'll investigate.

ExS.