Re: Have Mercy..trim your replies to the list

david baker

2008-07-15

Seems to me as an advantage to have all of the other replies in there so you
can follow the whole thing on one email.
I do not know how that digest mode works, but maybe that feature should be
modified for it to work better for you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:23 PM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Have Mercy..trim your replies to the list

> Hey, how's 'bout paring off your replies when posting to the list? As a
> Digest Mode subscriber, we sometimes scroll down to the message number of
> the post that interests us to read only that post, then delete the entire
> digest. But when you don't trim your posts before hitting send, the
> Digest
> will also include all the messages on the day you're replying to...so it
> becomes quite tedious to scroll through multiple digests to find the
> message
> # for the proper message you are interested in, rather than the same
> message number from a previous digest that has been included in some reply
> in which you may or may not be interested..In long threads, we sometimes
> see
> the same complete digest many many times and yet the latest post may
> really
> only contain a "Yes or No.." answer.
> Thanks
> Don Hanson
>
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