[Tutor] Please disable “digest mode” before participating

[Cameron Simpson]

On 26Apr2015 15:20, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
>On 04/26/2015 08:07 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
>>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. [...]
>
>When I used to subscribe here using digest, and reading with 
>Thunderbird, I'd see each message as an attachment.  To reply to one, 
>I first opened the appropriate attachment, and did a Reply-List to it. 
>WOrked well.
>
>I took a quick look, for another forum which I monitor using the 
>digest, and it looks like the same approach would still work.  For 
>occasional posting.

Did you check the digest for Mesaage-ID headers for each message item? Most 
digests lack them and as such, replies cannot be stitched together correctly.

You may have been using a mailer with a "group messages by subject" 
(mis?)feature, which may have merely made it look like it worked well.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

I swear to god, officer, I'm fixing this bridge. Just go divert traffic.