Marck D. Pearlstone kindly responded:
J>> ... I must confirm replying by Select All and F4 does not do the
J>> trick: it does _not_ override the signature delimiters.
> No ... and It shouldn't. Why would you want to anyway? A reply should
> always be to a single message. A message ends at the signature. IMHO
> It's not really the done thing to reply to multiple messages from a
> digest in a single reply.
I am willing to let the horse die early, but not before stating that I
am on certain lists where I often need to quote from multiple messages
in one reply, mainly because of the development of threads: messages
from early in the discussion (and earlier on the same day - _some_
lists do only produce one digest per day... unlike this one) may have
been cut down to fragments in various quotings and requotings at a
later stage, and the easiest way for me to make my references to the
parts snipped out meanwhile would be to quote the daily digest in full
length (and the included messages in their chronological order, which
is helpful) and then cut out everything I don't need.
As I haven't come across the signature delimiters problem on those
other lists so far, I only became aware of the fact this may be
unusual (but nevertheless most practical to me, in dealing with those
lists). _But_ this is just my explanation to your rhetoric question
above; it's obvious I could do pretty much of the same by individual
selecting and pasting from the digests, O.K. - I admit the signature
delimiter may have more merits and its little disadvantage for me is
not that important... especially since I've got _aware_ of what it is
and what it does. Thanks, anyway.
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Best,
Marc
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