Comment 16 for bug 671746

Of course this argument could revolve in a recursive loop.

- 'threads view' can indeed be used to track 'who answered who'. However,
-- in many cases this not very useful information without knowing what was answered,
-- it quickly gets untractable in discussions with many replies,
-- is fairly confusing as to when (in the discussion) a given reply happened (for example, you can have the last answer in the discussion as the third line in the thread),
-- breaks down the logical flow of the discussion since a given reply (the third one, in the example above) will often take into account other messages that happened elsewhere and are not necessarily preceding this given reply,
-- and wastes a whole lot of space in the 'email list' view.
In any case, this solution is implemented in a great deal of clients, so it is easy to choose one that suits you.

- 'conversation view' lines up all the replies in a chronological order that allows to intuitively follow the logical flow of the discussion. It allows one to tell 'who answered who' by looking at the replies themselves, and the quotes left in them.
Also, using Gmail directly is not a solution; I want to use Zoho Mail or any other IMAP service that offers similar functionality.