READ ME: When replying to users digest...

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 00:12 +0100, suvayu ali wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 23:49, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > IMHO the proper way to reply to a message within a digest is to use the
> > facility provided by most modern email clients to do just that (e.g.
> > both Evolution and Thunderbird can do this). This quotes only the
> > specific message and preserves threading, whereas editing the Subject
> > line does not.
> 
> I think the problem is most "quoted digest" posts are from new users,
> and almost always they use webmail.

Webmail pretty much implies an always-on connection, so the original
motivation for using digests (expensive dialup) is even less relevant.
Besides, I've never seen a digest as presented by a webmail system, so I
don't know if this is even a reasonable thing to do.

poc