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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Hi James!</p>
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<pre class="western">I would not like to not have a digest mail
Despite my best intentions all too often I have had a reply subject ?Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 206, Issue 32?</pre>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">I think the problem
is expecting the Subject field to be auto-filled with the
correct/current topic to which we’re replying. I’ll admit to
getting in a bit of a rush and replying to a post – hit
<Send>
and that’s when I see the Subject is wrong. Auto-fill probably
can’t be done/way too much work for the Programmers but perhaps a
way to not insert/fill in the Subject field? Thunderbird and I‘d
guess other mail clients whines if the Subject field is empty –
would give us humans a chance to put in the right text.</p>
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<pre class="western">I don?t use, and don?t understand the detail of threaded mail.
So a few lines summarizing what to do would be most appreciated, EG I always thought that keeping the reply intact maintained the thread.</pre>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">I don’t know
either, which might be a good thing as we’re being the vocal
portion of the Group Who Does Not Know – probably the majority of
the posters other than those giving us answers to our questions.
What I generally do is write my reply off-line: right now I’m in
LibreOffice, mainly so I can ‘think and rephrase’ and not
accidentally send off a partial reply. The quoted back portions
(your comments) are inserted with the ‘paste as a quotation’
option. I can and have also replied directly – just depends on
what is easier for me at the time.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Also noted there
are
a lot of question marks in the text. not just yours (and mine!) –
substitution character for an unknown character in the original. I
know there are at least two kinds of single quotes/apostrophes and
double quotes – wrong one and the Command Line doesn’t work. Have
also noticed with two sequential spaces and maybe tabs. (I was
taught end of sentence – period – space - space – new
sentence.)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">As for “maintaining
the thread” I also assumed it was done based on the Subject field;
it is one of the sort options at the website.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Barry</p>
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