users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

[suvayu ali]

Hi Todd,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Friday 11 February 2011 19:47:11 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> Just to be clear: changing the Subject line is *not enough* (same
>>> comment also applies to those who hijack threads). It's important
>>> to reply correctly to the message so as to preserve RFC-standard
>>> threading, which pays no attention to the Subject line.
>>>
>> I've never seen instructions on how to reply to a message in a
>> digest, yet keep the threading.  I don't use digest myself, but if
>> you know how it's done, it would be useful to document it.
>
> Using the MIME-style digests makes this trivial in most email clients.
> We set this style of digest as the default for this list a few months
> or so ago.  The Mailman default is to send plain text digests, which
> are much more of a pain.  I'm not sure if they even contain all the
> needed information.

Does this work for webmail interfaces like GMail?

-- 
Suvayu

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