[Tutor] Please disable “digest mode” before participating

[Ben Finney]

Jim Mooney <cybervigilante at gmail.com> writes:

> On 25 April 2015 at 18:03, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Digest mode should only ever be used if you know for certain you will
> > never be responding to any message.
>
> That brings up a great shortcut if you use gmail. If you select some
> text before reply that's All that is sent.

That doesn't reply to the original message. So it lacks the threading
provided by the “In-Reply-To” field, since you're not replying to the
original message.

It also lacks the correct Subject field, the correct attribution line,
etc. So, no, I still recommend strongly against responding to digest
messages — the information simply isn't there to compose a correct reply
message.

Instead, disable digest mode, and only after individual messages start
arriving at your mailbox can you participate properly, by replying to
them.

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Ben Finney