On 26Apr2015 22:07, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> 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 [...]
Yes, but it _does_ point an easy way for people from top-posting
do-not-trim-quotes cultures to adopt the technophile's
trim-quotes-for-relevance style which is so useful in discussion (versus
chatter).
Apple Mail also supports this handy "use the selected text for the context
quote" technique and I think a number of the other OSX based mail programs.
It doesn't cut it for multipoint quote1-reply1 quote2-reply2 messages, but it
is a great jumping off point for people new to the method.
_If_ the OP has abandoned digest mode, Jim's pointer is very useful.
Before then I agree that it is far less so, but that is because digests are
very unfortunate.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public
plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to
the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always
be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by
predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty. - Joseph Pulitzer, 1907 Speech
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