How best to reply to list (Was Re: startssl at boot time)

[Erik Trulsson]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 06:45:23PM +0100, Eric Penfold wrote:
> Joshua Lokken wrote:
> 
> > * Eric Penfold <eric at epetech.plus.com> [2004-04-08 04:50]:
> >
> >> (side note, I'm a lurker, not a subscriber, so this response will 
> probably break threading. If anyone has suggestions on how best to reply, 
> without needing to subscribe and be swamped by email, I'd be grateful).
> >
> >
> >
> > You could subscribe to the list and choose to have it delivered to you
> > daily as a digest; then you'd have all of the list posts, and only
> > receive one mail (or so) per day.
> 
> Yes, I'm aware of that possibility, but it doesnt help with the fundamental 
> problem of being able to reply to specific posts (without breaking 
> threading etc).

Once or twice when I have wanted to reply to a mail on a list that I am
not subscribed to, I have downloaded the raw e-mail in question from the
list-archives, placed it in my mailbox and then replied to it just as
if I had received it normally.
It is a bit of work, but it works fine.


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Erik Trulsson
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