<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Robert Johnston <<a href="mailto:anaerin@gmail.com">anaerin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">Andrew Berry wrote:<br>> On 24-Jul-08, at 10:49 AM, Robin Hill wrote:<br>><br>>> Almost certainly, you can't - none of the digest software I've used has<br>>> included the message IDs in the digest. These are what's used to tie<br>
>> together the messages in a thread (and are why changing the subject<br>>> shouldn't affect threading).<br>><br>> I would think that if a digest sent each message as a new mime part,<br>> then it would be simple for mailers to implement a 'reply to this<br>
> section' function. Isn't that one of the advantages of mime anyways?<br><br></div></div>Fron what I've seen (And this isn't always guaranteed, but is for the<br>most part), when there's a Digest being sent out correctly, the mail<br>
client (should) show it as a load of attached messages, along with<br>displaying said messages inline. If you want to reply to a message in<br>the thread, you open the attached message, then reply to that, rather<br>than replying to the entire digest.<br>
<br>But then, I've not done digest messaging in a LONG time.</blockquote>
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<div>Yeah, with the advent of gmail and thunderbird and their handling of threaded mailing lists, I don't see much reason to digest anymore.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div></div>