On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:00:09 -0800, John Mattson wrote:

>    A while back I was wondering why I could not find one of the subjects
>listed in "Topics of the Day" in the body of my eMail.  Figured it out
>today.  gMail "clips" long eMails but the only indication is at the BOTTOM
>of the eMail. Not user friendly.  Wonder what else I have missed
>
>> you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution
>or use of
>> the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the mes...
>
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> 
Ouch!  One might as well be browsing the list via a WWW interface.

It doesn't help searches when a user replies with "Subject: Re: Digest ..."
I've seen worse, but not recently:  replies that quoted entire digests.  
Sometimes
the offender offers the defense that some MUAs won't allow trimming quotations.

Once there was a conventional digest format that supported replies to single
articles.  I don't know that remains prevalent, nor that MUAs widely support it.

I suppose a digest might be structured as a message with multiple
"Content-type: message/rfc822" attachments.  I don't know that's customary.

(I subscribe to no digests.)

-- gil

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