[G4] What -- No Kick Back??? (was: Re: G4 Digest, Vol 6, Issue 16)

[Al Poulin]

Don:

I am amazed that your message got through.  When not changing the 
subject of an e-list "Digest," the list server always rejects the post, 
at least until now!  The usual idea is that you cannot be allowed to 
use the Digest subject line in a reply, because you are really 
responding to one of the items within the digest, not the digest 
itself.  And folks who are not in digest mode would have no clue what 
the subject of your message really is.

Al Poulin
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God, 
proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.


On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:29 PM, Don's Email Account wrote:

> Just testing this and it"s great to know.
>
> Don
>
>
> On 2/16/05 17:41, "g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com"
> <g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> wrote:
>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:44:37 -0500
>> From: Al Poulin <alpoulin at cox.net>
>> Subject: Re: [G4] How do I Reply to a Post?
>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
>> <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Cc: Jim Thornton <jimthornton at mac.com>
>> Message-ID: <2BA5BB90-7FA3-11D9-802A-00039353EBBC at cox.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>>
>> Jim:
>>
>> Several months ago, I quit the digest mode for this list and the 
>> others
>> that have the ".themacintoshguy.com" server address.  That is because
>> the digests stopped coming out daily, even if there was only one item
>> for the day.  It seemed the digests would collect items over a period
>> of days until some numerical threshold came about, and some of the
>> items were therefore many days old before I saw them.
>>
>> OK, for the lowendmac and other e-lists where I still enjoy the digest
>> mode, there are three things to accomplish.  Depending on the specific
>> mail client that I use, today OS X Mail, and several months ago,
>> Outlook Express, the specific button pushing and procedure is
>> different.  With Mail, the process is a bit more clumsy than with
>> Outlook Express.
>>
>> Highlight only the individual message to which you reply.  Then hit 
>> the
>> Reply button.
>>
>> Ensure that your "From" address is the same as the address you used to
>> subscribe to the list.  If you have more than one e-mail account, a
>> different account name may appear in your From line.
>>
>> Change the Subject line that results from your highlighting action to
>> read something different than the title of the list.  Usually, I just
>> copy and paste the specific subject of the poster's message.  If the
>> subject is changing within the thread, it is usually appropriate to
>> insert a new subject title, ending the new title with the old subject
>> in parentheses.
>>
>> And, like I am doing in this reply, you have the option of putting the
>> poster's e-mail address in the Cc: line to ensure that the person
>> receives your reply quicker than waiting for the digest.
>>
>> In OS X Mail, the problem with this process is that when I hit Reply,
>> the incoming digest message window disappears.  So, when I want to
>> continue reading the digest, I have to go back to the Inbox to reopen
>> it.  Or, if I want to adjust my treatment of my reply text by getting
>> something that I had deleted, I have to reopen the digest.
>>
>> On Feb 15, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Jim Thornton wrote:
>>
>>> I've made a few posts to this list, but I don't know how to reply to 
>>> an
>>> existing post/thread. I receive the digest version, so it doesn't 
>>> seem
>>> likely that I'd just hit "reply" to continue the thread of an
>>> individual
>>> message within a digest. Further, the "Message-ID" seems to contain
>>> the ISP
>>> of the poster of that message, so I wouldn't expect that to be the 
>>> way
>>> to
>>> reply to the entire list. I'm stumped. Thanks for any help you can
>>> give.
>>
>> Hope this helps, try it.
>>
>> Al Poulin
>> Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God,
>> proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.
>>
>
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