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Jim Spears

reply to digest

I sure wish people would quit or never start replying to the digest form of
the reflector. It sure results in a lot of wasted text to delete or scroll
by looking for the next real message.

Jim/N1NK

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Ken G Kopp

Re: reply to digest

I agree, Jim!

The digest is a pain on our collective rumps!

73!

K0PP

On Apr 1, 2017 09:41, "Jim Spears" <[hidden email]> wrote:

I sure wish people would quit or never start replying to the digest form of
the reflector. It sure results in a lot of wasted text to delete or scroll
by looking for the next real message.

Jim/N1NK
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Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT-2

Re: reply to digest

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It's okay to reply to the digest, but one really should edit-out all the
parts that they aren't answering, and PLEASE change the subject.

73 -- Lynn

On 4/1/2017 8:41 AM, Jim Spears wrote:

> I sure wish people would quit or never start replying to the digest form of
> the reflector. It sure results in a lot of wasted text to delete or scroll
> by looking for the next real message.
>
>
>
> Jim/N1NK
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Don Wilhelm

Re: reply to digest

There is a solution to the digest problem. Download individual posts!
Then in your email client, create an "Elecraft" folder - AND set a
filter to move all emails with [Elecraft] in the subject line to that
Elecraft folder.
Presto - your own "digest" which allows you to respond to individual posts.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/1/2017 12:27 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote:

> It's okay to reply to the digest, but one really should edit-out all the
> parts that they aren't answering, and PLEASE change the subject.
>
> 73 -- Lynn
>
> On 4/1/2017 8:41 AM, Jim Spears wrote:
>> I sure wish people would quit or never start replying to the digest
>> form of
>> the reflector. It sure results in a lot of wasted text to delete or
>> scroll
>> by looking for the next real message.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim/N1NK
>>
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Andy McMullin

Re: reply to digest

Don,

But then it takes so much longer to sort through the dross! Opening and closing each email in turn; clicking delete all those times; much quicker to just scan down the digest to find that one message that is relevant to your interests.

‘73
Andy, G8TQH

> On 1 Apr 2017, at 18:09, Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> There is a solution to the digest problem. Download individual posts!
> Then in your email client, create an "Elecraft" folder - AND set a filter to move all emails with [Elecraft] in the subject line to that Elecraft folder.
> Presto - your own "digest" which allows you to respond to individual posts.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 4/1/2017 12:27 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote:
>> It's okay to reply to the digest, but one really should edit-out all the
>> parts that they aren't answering, and PLEASE change the subject.
>>
>> 73 -- Lynn
>>

Jim Brown-10

Re: reply to digest

In reply to this post by Don Wilhelm

Yep. I read nearly two dozen email reflectors every day, and it's this
method makes it easy. And this is a FAR superior solution, for these key
reasons:

1) It allows the <Delete> key to quickly and easily clean out your mailbox.
2) It allows you to sort or search your email by name or thread

Most good email clients allow it, some make it easier than others. I've
used Thunderbird for many years.

73, Jim K9YC

On Sat,4/1/2017 10:09 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> There is a solution to the digest problem. Download individual posts!
> Then in your email client, create an "Elecraft" folder - AND set a
> filter to move all emails with [Elecraft] in the subject line to that
> Elecraft folder.
> Presto - your own "digest" which allows you to respond to individual
> posts.

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Raymond Sills

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That's exactly what have been doing for years. But a big monkey wrench was forced into the procedure, when Verizon decided to stop providing it's customers with email service (via their email servers). Fortunately, (I guess), they worked out a deal with AOL, to pass the email domain name (verizon.net) over to AOL, which has enabled those of us with verizon addresses to simply "keep" them.. making it much easier than trying to use a new email service and having to advise all your email contacts as to the new address.

And, I've been pleasantly surprised with AOL's web-based client features. Essentially, their web client is able to emulate all the filtering that I had with my dedicated email app on my Mac. So, for now.. it's been rather painless. And AOL's web client even works with older OSs on my machines. I guess they coded it so that it will run on any generic browser.

Granted, the cost of this is having some advertising pop up on the side of my monitor screen, but it does not interfere with the operation of reading and sending email. And, after you send an email, a screen comes up with an ad... (which is how AOL pays for everything). So, I'm OK with that.

73 de Ray
K2ULR
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-----Original Message-----
From: Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]>
To: elecraft <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sat, Apr 1, 2017 1:10 pm
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] reply to digest

There is a solution to the digest problem. Download individual posts!
Then in your email client, create an "Elecraft" folder - AND set a
filter to move all emails with [Elecraft] in the subject line to that
Elecraft folder.
Presto - your own "digest" which allows you to respond to individual posts.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/1/2017 12:27 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote:

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Graham Kimbell

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It's _not_ a "digest problem". It's a failure by those replying to take
enough care with what they're doing and to understand the grief it
causes others. And a solution should be targeted at the offenders, not
the victims.

Graham (trying to take care)

> There is a solution to the digest problem. Download individual posts!

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Kevin - K4VD

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Grief? Offenders? Victims? Targets? Was there another riot or attack in a
major city or are we talking about a ham radio mailing list?

?
Kev K4VD

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Graham Kimbell <[hidden email]> wrote:

> It's _not_ a "digest problem". It's a failure by those replying to take
> enough care with what they're doing and to understand the grief it causes
> others. And a solution should be targeted at the offenders, not the
> victims.
>
> Graham (trying to take care)
>
>
> There is a solution to the digest problem. Download individual posts!
>>
>
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Jim Rhodes-2

Re: reply to digest

Not a victim here, I delete without reading over 90% of the email I get.
And my ISP has pretty good filters for spam. Just saying for those that
think everybody reads their reposted digests that some of us don't. They
are the ones wasting their time.

Jim Rhodes
K0XU

On Apr 2, 2017 15:10, "Kevin - K4VD" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Grief? Offenders? Victims? Targets? Was there another riot or attack in a
> major city or are we talking about a ham radio mailing list?
>
> ?
> Kev K4VD
>
> On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Graham Kimbell <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > It's _not_ a "digest problem". It's a failure by those replying to take
> > enough care with what they're doing and to understand the grief it causes
> > others. And a solution should be targeted at the offenders, not the
> > victims.
> >
> > Graham (trying to take care)
> >
> >
> > There is a solution to the digest problem. Download individual posts!
> >>
> >
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David Corsello

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For those of us who receive only the digest, there is a way to cut down
on unnecessary and annoying extra text in our replies. In most email
client applications, if you select text before hitting the reply button,
only the selected text is quoted in the reply. This message is a
response to the digest done that way.

On 4/1/2017 8:03 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2017 09:41, "Jim Spears"<[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I sure wish people would quit or never start replying to the digest form of
> the reflector. It sure results in a lot of wasted text to delete or scroll
> by looking for the next real message.
>
> Jim/N1NK

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