Responding to questions in the list

[Tim Roberts]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:23:59 -0400, "John Salerno" <johnjsal at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi everyone. This is slightly off-topic, but I was wondering what
> method you all use to respond to particular topics in this mailing
> list. All I can think of is to hit Reply, then delete everything I
> don't need, then I have to change the To: address and the Subject to
> reflect the topic I'm responding to. Is there a way I'm missing that
> keeps everything in a preferred format?


It depends entirely on what program you use to read e-mail.  I use
Thunderbird.  I select the whole message I want to reply to, including
the metadata (subject, from, date), and copy it to the clipboard.  Then
I hit reply, then select the whole digest and do "Ctrl-Shift-V".  This
pastes only the message I wanted, with the "reply" markers added.  Then
I reformat the top line to the "On date, user wrote:" format,
copy-and-paste the subject line, and go.

It was a lot easier with PMMail.  If you hit reply while text was
selected, it created a reply to only that text.

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:37:13 -0700, Robin Dunn <robin at alldunn.com> wrote:

>
> why do you have to change the To and the Subject?  Are you subscribed
> to the digest feed?  If so then you may want to consider changing to a
> regular subscription.


Unless someone is using wxPython professionally, this list's volume is
WAY too high for that.  We often get a hundred messages a day.  For
anything over about 10 a day, I always go with the digest.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.