Re: [R] How to reply to a thread if receiving R-help mails in digest form
At 14:21 13/08/2006, Dirk Enzmann wrote: I receive R-help messages in digest form that makes it difficult to answer a post. I noticed that my answer is not added to the thread (instead, a new thread is started) although I use the same subject line (starting with Re: ) as the original post. Is there a solution (I prefer the digest to separate messages for several reasons and don't want to change my email reader)? Dirk, I asked some while ago for people to tell me how they read digests in their news reader so I could put together a list of helpful hints. Unfortunately I got nowhere. In the email client I use (Eudora) there is an option to receive digests as attachments (as Ted Harding has also outlined in another email. It is rather hidden so I suspect if you can do it in Thunderbird it will be similarly hidden. Try looking for such an option and let me know if you find it. The way I answer post up to now is: 1) I press the reply button of my email program (Mozilla / Thunderbird, Windows) 2) I delete all contents of the digest except for the post (including name and mail address of the posting person) I want to answer so that the original question will be included (cited) in my answer. 3) I add the email address to the individual sender to cc: to the automatically generated address of the R-help list. 4) I replace the automatically generated subject line (for example Re: R-help Digest, Vol 42, Issue 13 by Re: followed by a copy of the original subject line of the post. 5) I write my answer and send the mail to the mailing list. It's not that this is tedious - the problem is that the thread is broken. Is there a better way even if I want to keep receiving messages in digest form? The posting guide is silent about this. Dirk * Dr. Dirk Enzmann Institute of Criminal Sciences Dept. of Criminology Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 D-20146 Hamburg Germany phone: +49-(0)40-42838.7498 (office) +49-(0)40-42838.4591 (Billon) fax: +49-(0)40-42838.2344 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www2.jura.uni-hamburg.de/instkrim/kriminologie/Mitarbeiter/Enzmann/Enzmann.html Michael Dewey http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] How to reply to a thread if receiving R-help mails in digest form
I receive R-help messages in digest form that makes it difficult to answer a post. I noticed that my answer is not added to the thread (instead, a new thread is started) although I use the same subject line (starting with Re: ) as the original post. Is there a solution (I prefer the digest to separate messages for several reasons and don't want to change my email reader)? The way I answer post up to now is: 1) I press the reply button of my email program (Mozilla / Thunderbird, Windows) 2) I delete all contents of the digest except for the post (including name and mail address of the posting person) I want to answer so that the original question will be included (cited) in my answer. 3) I add the email address to the individual sender to cc: to the automatically generated address of the R-help list. 4) I replace the automatically generated subject line (for example Re: R-help Digest, Vol 42, Issue 13 by Re: followed by a copy of the original subject line of the post. 5) I write my answer and send the mail to the mailing list. It's not that this is tedious - the problem is that the thread is broken. Is there a better way even if I want to keep receiving messages in digest form? The posting guide is silent about this. Dirk * Dr. Dirk Enzmann Institute of Criminal Sciences Dept. of Criminology Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 D-20146 Hamburg Germany phone: +49-(0)40-42838.7498 (office) +49-(0)40-42838.4591 (Billon) fax: +49-(0)40-42838.2344 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www2.jura.uni-hamburg.de/instkrim/kriminologie/Mitarbeiter/Enzmann/Enzmann.html __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] How to reply to a thread if receiving R-help mails in digest form
Dirk Enzmann dirk.enzmann at uni-hamburg.de writes: I receive R-help messages in digest form that makes it difficult to answer a post. I noticed that my answer is not added to the thread (instead, a new thread is started) although I use the same subject line (starting with Re: ) as the original post. Is there a solution (I prefer the digest to separate messages for several reasons and don't want to change my email reader)? Dirk, this is one of the reasons I dislike the list format, but that's a subject has been discussed already several times, with no hope of change. I don't use the digest, but rely on http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general instead. Dieter __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
