Re: Message IDs and threading

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Patricia:

≪ I don't want to go to the hassle of changing ISPs if I won't be able
to go back to the digest again. ≫

If that's your reason for switching, don't bother. Message IDs are governed by
MIME standards; their handling doesn't vary from client to client.

You can reply to an individual message in the digest. Don't hit Reply.
Rather, start a new message and paste the subject of the message you're
replying to -- exactly as it appears in the original message (prepending "Re: "
if it's not already there) -- into the Subject line. The indexing engine
(MHonArc) should "thread" the reply correctly. (Correct me if I'm wrong,
Robert.)

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx
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> I hope this one gets connected correctly. A member e-mailed me off list
> with some comments about EarthLink, and added at the end:
> "PS. Another thing I haven't figured out how to do is to reply directly
> to a thread on a list that I get in digest form -- thus my reply directly
> to you." Is it possible that the lumping of all messages in a digest
> under one message ID is a peculiarity of digesting, not just of Juno?
> Does anyone else get the digest, and if so, how do the individual
> postings display? Can you reply to one or another individually (thereby
> getting the correct message ID for threading purposes, as Robert urged us
> to)? I don't want to go to the hassle of changing ISPs if I won't be able
> to go back to the digest again. Thanks.
> Patricia
>