It would appear that on Sep 14, Todd Denniston did say: > Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote, On 12/23/-28158 02:59 PM: > > Personally I don't think that's ever going to happen any more than I > > think anybody will ever offer a list server with a smart digest option > > that includes some kind of "header like" tag in each individual message > > of the digest that can be used by a digest only subscriber to request a > > personal resend of just those individual messages they wanted to reply > > to. Which would provide a way for digest users to avoid messing with the > > threaded message reply path. > > > > Like I said, it ain't gonna happen... > > But wouldn't it be nice if I was wrong? > > > <SNIP> > At least on this bit I think there is a way to get the _effect_ you want, > differently. > > This happens to be a reply to the lyx-users digest... > the lyx-users digest is sent as a mime digest and with Thunderbird the user > can simply double click on the message of interest (each message is listed as > a mime attachment in the digest) which opens the message as a pretty much > normal message and then hit reply. > For some reason I had to take an extra Re: off the subject line, and I felt > that SNIPing the message was reasonable, but this was the extent of the > editing I HAD to do.
Well I'm glad to hear there is a work around. But I was talking about a method that didn't specify which mail client was to be used. And was suggesting (though NOT expecting) that if that, (like an optional subject munging) was solved at the mail server, then it would be reasonable to ask digest users to follow a simple how-to for digest replies... > Using this knowledge in another email client is an exorcise left to the reader > and other list members. :) Actually now you got me curious. As an alpine user I didn't want to believe that Tbird had better message handling abilities... ;-) So I just ran a partial test. (partial because it's been a *_LONG_* time since I subscribed to digest versions. And I didn't want to actually send a test reply to the fedora core one vintage digest message I found in an old archive, to a list I haven't even lurked in since Kubuntu Breezy) Anyway, with alpine 2.00 I opened said digest, used the "v" command to view attachments, selected a message from the list which did display in order, including the individual subject lines. Then I viewed the message itself. The message appeared to be complete with the "Message-ID:" header line, so I tried the reply command "r" and found myself in the composer, with the text of the selected message quoted, and a subject line that correctly reflected that of the selected message... Before deleting the reply I wasn't going to send, I postponed it and opened the postponed folder for reading, the "In-Reply-To:" header was indeed, pointing at the individual message in question... > Lyx on Linux, with out header munging. :0 > Boy we have stepped off topic. :) Yeah I guess we have at that... But sometimes a little OT is therapeutic... And the stress I feel anytime I think of even a remote possibility having to deal with subject munging on yet another list indicates a need for a little therapy... -- | ~~~ ~~~ | <@> <@> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtw...@ttlc.net>> | [ chuckle ]
