On 15/08/10 19:35, Nathan Haines wrote: > On 08/15/2010 11:20 AM, Alan Bell wrote: > >> On 15/08/10 18:48, Chuck Frain wrote: >> >> >>> The question to you was "are you suggesting that the digest subscribers >>> and non-subscribers are not allowed to participate on this mailing >>> list?" >>> >>> >> of course they can participate. Not being a digest subscriber to any >> lists I am curious about how one would normally reply to a digest mail. >> Surely a list would quickly grind to a halt if everyone replied to >> digests including the full digest as the next days digest would be full >> of digests from the day before and would be quite um, indigestable. >> >> > Well, in theory you do what you'd do with any reply and only quote the > part you were responding to. > > Paul asked Elanor not to reply because it breaks threading, which would > seem to suggest that there's no way for a non-subscriber to participate > either. I'm sure that's not what he meant but as he declined to answer > I suppose we'll simply be left to guess. > > Right, I think it's safe to assume as Paul hasn't replied he's actually offline this weekend. Which is why he's not replied not that he's declined or anything to answer. I also think there has been some breakdown in communication and possibly poor choice of words from Paul. When a person replies from a daily digest there is no subject bar the daily digest which makes it very hard for people following a thread to figure out what it's about. In this age of many people myself include and others reading their mails while on the go via their phone it makes it hard to find a context of an email. What to do about it I'm unsure, I don't know many people who use digest but that's their choice not mine.
I am pretty sure if not 100% sure Paul didn't mean to say that if you are a daily digest subscriber you cannot participate, I've read the email and possibly poor choice words which don't translate very well. I hope there is as much interest and enthusiasm put into translating the classbot as this mail has drawn. Laura -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski http://www.lczajkowski.com Skype: lauraczajkowski -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
