please remove this e-mail address from your address book.  Thanks!
On Aug 24, 2006, at 7:28 PM, Lee Larson wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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