[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 206, Issue 28

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 17/05/2020 14:00, Paul Harrison wrote:
> James,
> 
> Please help all users on the mailing lists and change the subject line
> to match the subject you are relying to when relying to digest emails or
> creating new threads.

James,

Better yet, please go to

http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

and turn off digest mode on your subscription (i.e. answer No to the
question "Would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?")

Digest mode is intended for lurkers, i.e. people who read but don't
actively participate in discussions.

If you as a digest subscriber do actively participate in discussions
this creates two problems for all other subscribers, one of which you
can prevent but the other you can't:

1. Simply replying to a digest email results in an email to the list
that has a different subject line from the thread you're responding to.
You can manually fix this as Paul H. suggests

2. But replying to a digest email also breaks the threading, because the
"In-Reply-To" header in your email refers to the digest email, not to
the email that appeared on the list. So each reply of yours starts a new
thread in everyone else's mail client, even if you remembers to change
the subject line as discussed above.

Many thanks, Jan