Re: st: RE: Correct Way to Respond to Posts when Email is Turned Off

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 08:32 AM 7/29/2011, Nick Cox wrote:
> I don't know how this arises, as Statalist posts are sent 
> automatically to each member, and you can't post to Statalist 
> without being a member. Only your local IT support can explain, I guess.
>
> But a small issue certainly arises for digest subscribers who wish 
> to reply to a particular posting, and the only method that they can, 
> or more precisely should, use is to copy and paste from a digest 
> post and/or archived post and send a new mail using that material 
> under the same title.
>
> Whether the archiving software, and/or various mailers, then gets 
> the threading right is not something that bothers most people very 
> much. Short of converting ourselves to a web forum, there is not 
> much that can be done about it. Abolishing the digest is not 
> something I would think of floating, as digest subscribers outnumber 
> regular subscribers.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

Personally, I have email filters set up that send all the statalist 
messages to a separate folder. I often ignore many/most messages, but 
then when I do want to reply to a specific message it is easy to do 
so. It is also easier to identify messages I might be interested in 
than going through the digest would be. I also use a different email 
address when using Statalist, so that even on my phone before 
filtering I don't get a lot of clutter. To me, this seems superior to 
getting the digest, but apparently I am in the minority here.


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