On Aug 24, 2006, at 6:07 PM, NPfield at aol.com wrote: > Thanks, John (and Russ, who also responded). If I simply hit > "Reply," I get a "clear" mail box with the correct address -- i.e. > "macgroup at erdos.math.louisville, edu." But the subject line reads > "Re: macgroup-digest V2 #1264" (or whatever), not the specific post > I want to reply to. So I have to retype the subject line. Then if > I select the message I want to reply to, copy and paste it into the > mail box, it says "In a message dated [whatever] owner-macgroup- > digest at erdos.math.louisvile.edu writes:" followed by the text I've > copied and pasted. Obviously, I'm not replying generically to > "owner-macgroup-digest," etc., so I have to retype that line with > the name of whoever wrote the message I'm replying to. Others seem > to do it with less hassle. Maybe it has to do with the fact that > I'm on the digest. Maybe it's just something I'll have to live > with. At least, my problem with garbled text seems to have > disappeared. In any event, much thanks for your responses.
This is because you are getting the digest rather than individual messages. With individual messages, the sender of the message is the individual who wrote it. The digest is one long message sent by the majordomo robot and that's all your mail program knows. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060824/a55169cf/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2452 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060824/a55169cf/attachment.bin
