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

[David Woolley (E.L)]

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, but I would be 
very disappointed in Thunderbird if it broke threading!

Providing you request the digest in multipart/digest format, any 
competent mail program should be able to reply properly threaded to an 
individual message from the digest.  If you use Outlook, you can even 
drag the messages from a digest into a folder and treat them like real, 
individual, messages.

Thunderbird does have some quirks in this context, like bogus HTML tags 
in the reply and an extra Re:, in the subject, but, to the best of my 
knowledge, it gets In-Reply-To right.  I'll check the archive, though.

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