Yes, I will likely look at all of them, but I would rather look at them in the order I choose than the order I'm given. If you have a whole pile of replies and you have limited time, you have to open each one and see for yourself. This is, as I'm trying to say, silly since the server knows who replied, it just isn't telling you.

When I get a bunch of e-mail messages from people, I don't have to guess based on the subject who it's from. I'm merely proposing that these "messages" should follow the same type of standard as a regular /msg message.

Where it becomes increasingly frustrating is if you get five replies to a single message, all with exactly the same title. I can easily lose track of which ones I have read, and end up having to open them up all over again. I don't remember the node_id's, but I do remember the people, so with a name/message pair, I wouldn't have to go through all that trouble.

Some people have undertaken a program of "building brand awareness" by putting their name in the reply title, which does help, but I'm not trying to encourage that practice.

In reply to Re^2: Messages Re: Message Replies by tadman
in thread Messages Re: Message Replies by tadman

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