On 04/26/2015 08:07 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
Jim Mooney <cybervigila...@gmail.com> writes:
On 25 April 2015 at 18:03, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
Digest mode should only ever be used if you know for certain you will
never be responding to any message.
That brings up a great shortcut if you use gmail. If you select some
text before reply that's All that is sent.
That doesn't reply to the original message. So it lacks the threading
provided by the “In-Reply-To” field, since you're not replying to the
original message.
It also lacks the correct Subject field, the correct attribution line,
etc. So, no, I still recommend strongly against responding to digest
messages — the information simply isn't there to compose a correct reply
message.
Instead, disable digest mode, and only after individual messages start
arriving at your mailbox can you participate properly, by replying to
them.
When I used to subscribe here using digest, and reading with
Thunderbird, I'd see each message as an attachment. To reply to one, I
first opened the appropriate attachment, and did a Reply-List to it.
WOrked well.
I took a quick look, for another forum which I monitor using the digest,
and it looks like the same approach would still work. For occasional
posting.
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DaveA
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