Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW-users Digest, Vol 49, Issue 54

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> If you copy the entire digest to this list again, you will be moderated.
>
> Why does the list even offer a digest form? Isn't that unnecessary in
> this century? Surely any sensible mail client can collect individual
> messsages from some list into a folder of its own, etc. No need to do
> the digesting at the sending side. It only causes problems like this.
>

The very best email clients can distinguish each individual mail in the 
digest and allow a reply to the individual post with proper message id. 
  Should we eliminate a digest mode just because of the occasional 
inconsiderate noob?

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