[Elecraft] What caused long reposts

[David Woolley]

If you are using Thunderbird, I believe the best way is to request the 
digest in MIME Digest mode.  As well as allowing you to page through the 
digest, it also allows you to treat the individual messages as 
attachments, so you can open up the specific  message and reply to it. 
That way, you get the correct subject, and, more subtly, you get the 
correct In-Reply-To header, so that forums and good mail clients can 
properly place the reply in the thread.

That's how I do all replies to this list.

(Note Thunderbird does have some bugs, e.g. I had to delete a redundant 
"Re:" from the subject.  It can also be a little fiddly working out 
which instance of the subject is the correct one in the attachments.)

Unfortunately, the top posting policy of the list reduces the incentive 
to trim posts, meaning people who do end up quoting the digest don't 
think about pruning it.  Failing to prune is also bad for readers of the 
digest, as they have to page over the complete back thread.

This has been top-posted, but also pruned, as it would be for an 
interleaved posting (popularly called bottom posting, although not 
everything need be at the bottom).

On 02/04/17 03:35, Don Wilhelm wrote:

>
> I understand that those steps are more difficult on a smartphone.  It is
> easy when using an email client like Thunderbird.  As I have stated, I
> suggest receiving individual emails and sorting them into an Elecraft
> folder.  That way you can reply to individual posts without the bother
> of deleting a lot of information.  I do not receive email on a
> smartphone, so I don't have any suggestions for handling that.
>

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