Responding to questions in the list

[Don Dwiggins]

Tim Roberts wrote:
> 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.

Until recently, I used gnus under Emacs -- it has the capability to 
"burst" a digest into its component messages, so you can reply 
individually (don't know if it preserved the threading, though -- that 
may get lost in the digesting process).  Unfortunately, gnus doesn't 
handle multipart messages and HTML gracefully, so I reluctantly switched 
to T'bird.

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

Might be a good idea for an extension to T'bird.

-- 
Don Dwiggins
Advanced Publishing Technology