[OSM-newbies] Digest users: Please read

[Paul Johnson]

On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 18:22 -0400, Bill Ricker wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo-PVOPTusIyP/srOwW+9ziJQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > If you prefer to subscribe to the Digest, please do the rest of us list
> > readers a massive favor, and quit breaking threads!  You can do this by
> > splitting the digest into individual messages when you receive it (which
> > is what you're supposed to do with digests anyway), and replying to the
> > individual messages, not the digest message itself.  If you are
> > unwilling or unable to use procmail or do the right thing with your
> > digests,
> 
> Pasting the original message's subject onto the reply should also be acceptable.

No, no it's not.  By failing to split the original digest into original
messages before replying, you destroy the In-Reply-To: references
header.  This breaks threads.

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