[Elecraft] Mail List Procedure Question

[David Woolley]

I'm replying to this from the digest!

There are two ways of taking the digest.  With good mail programs, the 
best way is the MIME digest format.  Although the details may vary, good 
mail programs will allow you to decompose the digest.  In the case of 
Thunderbird/Iceweasel, it displays the concatenated messages, with 
specially formatted header lines, and provides access to the individual 
messages as though they were attachments.

There is a minor bug in that, when replying to a reply, Thunderbird adds 
an extra "Re:", but that is easily fixed.

Doing it this way, rather than just editing out the rest of the digest, 
has the added advantage that a correct In-Reply-To header is sent, that 
can help threading readers.

(What  I really hate is where people ignore the warning at the top of 
the digest, and simply copy the whole digest, or that part after the 
message to which they are responding.  That cuts short the next digest 
and also forces one to plough through lots of old postings, possibly to 
find that the culprit has overflowed the digest size limit and there are 
no more real items in the digest.)

-- 
David Woolley
Owner K2 06123

On 30/06/18 15:09, Lee Murrah wrote:
> I am receiving messages in the digest mode. I see that most replies to topics include the text of the prior message and a modified subject line in the form you would expect when replying to an email.  However, there is no way to reply directly to a topic and include the prior text and subject line as far as I know.  How can I do this?
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