[mythtv-users] Posts from digest subscribers

[Barry Martin]

Hi James!


> 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?

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.


> 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.

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.

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.)

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.

Barry



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