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

[Rick Kunath]

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 and read the online archives. The only
> way these folks can reply is by copying and pasting into a new message.

Exactly right. (Except you can reply using an online archive without 
breaking the thread.)

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 
digest is it's own thread, and any copied and pasted new message also 
becomes it's own thread.

Short answer, if you are wanting to ever reply to a message, don't get 
the digest, because it breaks threading. If you must get the digest, 
create a Nabble account and post there, thereby not breaking the 
existing message threading.

Digests were never designed for people receiving them to take an active 
part in email list threads, because they break the threading and 
fragment message reply continuity.

Nabble allows you to reply to a message, just as you would with your 
email client (in non-digest mode) and won't break the thread.

There really isn't any excuse for breaking a thread.

Folks may not realize the down side to using the digest mode.

Rick Kunath, k9ao