Re: [Elecraft] OT: How to reply to a thread, and why it's important

Rick Kunath wrote: This is why getting the email in digest form if you are ever wanting to reply to a threaded message is a bad idea. *All* digest replies break message threading, and are really frowned on on some email lists. The So this reply has broken threading? It's a digest reply,

[Elecraft] OT: How to reply to a thread, and why it's important

Sorry for the spam, but I quit smoking tobacco last week and I'm in a foul mood, and this is one of my pet peeves (along with HTML mail) .. minor rant Those who use a threading mail program (Gmail is a great example) see a thread as a group of messages all clumped together to make it easy to read

RE: [Elecraft] OT: How to reply to a thread, and why it's important

Well, I never new that. Thanks for the mini-rant. I've always clicked Reply but now I have a better understanding of how it works. So if I click reply and then edit the title of the reply, does that also break the thread? And, yes, I was tempted, just for fun, to create a new message and copy

Re: [Elecraft] OT: How to reply to a thread, and why it's important

John D'Ausilio wrote: Sorry for the spam, but I quit smoking tobacco last week and I'm in a foul mood, and this is one of my pet peeves (along with HTML mail) .. [snip] Except that some people receive digests, and others don't want this stuff cluttering up their mailbox at all and read

Re: [Elecraft] OT: How to reply to a thread, and why it's important

This is a reply using the archive at http://www.nabble.com/Elecraft-f28632.html which has direct reply capability - no copy/paste needed. I use this method almost exclusively. 73, Barry N1EU G4ILO wrote: . . . others don't want this stuff cluttering up their mailbox at all and read the

Re: [Elecraft] OT: How to reply to a thread, and why it's important

G4ILO wrote: John D'Ausilio wrote: Sorry for the spam, but I quit smoking tobacco last week and I'm in a foul mood, and this is one of my pet peeves (along with HTML mail) .. [snip] Except that some people receive digests, and others don't want this stuff cluttering up their mailbox at all

Re: [Elecraft] OT: How to reply to a thread, and why it's important

Darwin, Keith wrote: Well, I never new that. Thanks for the mini-rant. I've always clicked Reply but now I have a better understanding of how it works. So if I click reply and then edit the title of the reply, does that also break the thread? No, the threading stays intact. The subject does

Re: [Elecraft] OT: How to reply to a thread, and why it's important

What about Outlook Express, which has a choice of Reply or Reply All. What these do depends on how the reflector is set up my the owner. Sometimes Reply goes just to the individual whose post is being answered and NOT to all reflecvtor members. with Reply All going to all reflector members.