Re: st: RE: Correct Way to Respond to Posts when Email is Turned Off
Date
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:45:26 -0500
At 08:32 AM 7/29/2011, Nick Cox wrote:
But a small issue certainly arises for digest subscribers who wish
to reply to a particular posting, and the only method that they can,
or more precisely should, use is to copy and paste from a digest
post and/or archived post and send a new mail using that material
under the same title.
Whether the archiving software, and/or various mailers, then gets
the threading right is not something that bothers most people very
much. Short of converting ourselves to a web forum, there is not
much that can be done about it. Abolishing the digest is not
something I would think of floating, as digest subscribers outnumber
regular subscribers.
Incidentally, I think correct threading is very useful. It makes it
much easier if, say, you are trying to track down the answer to
something that was already asked years ago. I like it when I can find
the question and then follow the thread through. Otherwise I may have
to do a bunch of googling to find all the relevant posts.
I might also be happier with a web forum, but overall Statalist meets
my needs very well.
