[Tutor] Please disable “digest” mode in order to participate

[Ben Finney]

Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> writes:

> In a message of Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:05:16 +1000, Ben Finney writes:
> >Please disable that in order to receive individual messages, so you
> >can participate properly: responding to individual messages that the
> >rest of us see.
>
> Or see if your mailer, like mine, has an option for bursting digests
> in place. Bursting is splitting a digest into individual messages so
> that you can reply to them individually.

That's an interesting feature. It's not sufficient though: the resulting
messages lack the full header of each message, so any reply will not be
properly marked as a response to the original.

The only way to participate properly in a discussion on a mailing list
is to respond to the actual messages that were sent. And that's only
possible if you disable “digest” mode beforehand.

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Ben Finney