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Re: st: Replying if in digest mode
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Re: st: Replying if in digest mode
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Sat, 3 Aug 2013 08:20:24 +1000
Filtering Statalist messages into a separate folder is a great idea, but
sorting the threads by date is still difficult since the titles of the
threads keep changing (e.g. below). I find it easier to read the threads
from the oldest posting to the newest for each topic - so I wish sorting
was easier.
Mike.
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> I avoid the digest for such reasons. Instead I have a filter that sends my
> Statalist messages to a separate folder. Then I can read or not read and
> reply or not reply as I wish. With most mail programs filtering is easy. I
> have filters and folders set up for a lot of other types of messages too.
> For that matter, the email address I am using here is dedicated to
> Statalist only, which further helps to cut down on clutter.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 2, 2013, at 9:53 AM, "Ariel Linden, DrPH" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> As a digest receiver, myself, I can add one additional comment to Nick's
>> below:
>>
>> You may be responding to a posting that has already been responded to
>> (as
>> you are coming a day late to the party). More often than not, I first go
>> to
>> the statalist archives page http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/ to
>> make
>> sure that my response is not duplicative of others.
>>
>> Ariel
>>
>>
>> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 10:42:30 +0100
>> From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
>> Subject: st: Replying if in digest mode
>>
>> Someone asked
>>
>> I am a new Statalist person, and I am not sure how to reply to people,
>> given that I signed up to Statalist in "digest" mode.
>>
>> This is already answered in the FAQ at
>> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/#toask
>>
>> "... if you are replying to a daily digest, put your reply in a new
>> posting, taking care to use the same title as the specific posting you
>> are replying to. Replying to the digest itself (even if you edit out
>> all irrelevant content and change the title) causes archiving software
>> to receive irrelevant information about what you are replying to."
>>
>> There is a little awkwardness here, but digest subscribers can't have
>> it both ways.
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
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