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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi,

Darrell Fuhriman a écrit :
> That's not what's happening.  People aren't usually replying to a 
> specific message in the digest, they're hitting reply, deleting the 
> message, changing the subject and sending an entirely new message to 
> the list. People don't bother to remember the list address, especially 
> if they're infrequent posters (as digest users often are), they just 
> reply to the last message they got and compose their new message.
Ok. It looks like I didn't realize the core of the problem. People don't 
reply to the digest. They just use the digest as a source to post a new 
message. It makes sense for people who don't post often after all.
Sometimes I speak too fast. Sorry.
> I see this *all* the time whether from digest users or regular users.  
> One need only use an MUA that threads based on In-Reply-to headers to 
> see how often this happens.
Actually I do. Embedded threads are a pain in... well a pain.
> Besides, one of the reasons I like sympa, is that it doesn't generally 
> assume to know better than I do about how to configure the lists.  
> Clearly this is an exception.
Well it is clearly a case we didn't imagine while writing this part of 
the code.
I'll see what's wrong with that.

Cheers,

David

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David Verdin
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