Hello Thorsten. Thanks for replying to my post. At 2:29 PM on Friday, March 29, 2002 you wrote the following about [using digest]:
Thorsten> Some mailing lists offer a digest that is actually Thorsten> a collection of each mail attached. Would that be a mime digest? Thorsten> The Bat! offers you the possibility to manually Thorsten> set a header field "Follow-up to" with the Thorsten> message-ID of the email you're responding to Thorsten> (while it's true name is "In-Reply-To"). Thorsten> Unfortunately the tbtech digest is a "true" digest Thorsten> that doesn't show the message-ID of each mail so Thorsten> there is no way to reply to a mail individually Thorsten> without breaking the thread. So this is sort of a catch-22. [although you can do it, you can't do it] Thorsten> So digest means: read and post only, no reply. This is a shame I think. When I first started using TB!, I wanted individual emails as I learned from reading others questions & answers as well as asking & getting answers to my own questions. But now I find so much repetition like complaining about the weird TB! editor, TB's lack of html & endless threads on subjects like TB's menu structure, the inconvenience of the menu navigator button & other options, sometimes even before they've been fully explored. For me this is boring because it seems to come from people who like to hear themselves talk but don't have that much to offer. But they have that right on this beginner's list, a right that I respect. I try to help the relatively few times people ask questions that I can answer because so many of the TBUDL members were [& are] so helpful. I thought the digest would limit my exposure to useless msgs [to me] while still allowing me the priviledge of helping whenever I was qualified to do so. Now I find out I can't do that w/o disrupting threads which would screw everyone else up so I don't want to do that. So I'm frustrated & will have to consider another approach. Thorsten> By the way: digest mode seems to be broken; I Thorsten> subscribed but did not get a single digest for Thorsten> about a month. I tried to resubscribe but that Thorsten> list server replied with "already subscribed". So Thorsten> I unsubscribed and resubscribed: same as before - Thorsten> no digest. That wasn't my expeience [up to his point]. I found an automated link which I used & the next day I got a digest. ,----- [excerpted from a Marck mission statement] | | [...] just double click here and send the | message that is generated to begin receiving the list as a digest: | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?BODY=set%20tbudl%20digest | | If you ever wish to change back [...] | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?BODY=unset%20tbudl%20digest '----- If you want the digest I HTH -- Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT USA TB! V1.60c/W2K_SP2 ______________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbtech.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
