How the **** Do I Use a Mailing List?

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

you can still continue using digest, you only need to change the
settings from plain text to MIME digest.

"A MIME digest has each message as an attachment inside the message,
along with a summary table of contents", hence you can reply to the
individual email by keeping the original subject and thread (email
headers).


See http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node28.html .

Note, I'm subscribed to a mailing list where we first made MIME the
default for digest, since plain text digest nowadays makes no sense at
all. It's from an ancient time, when some email programs were unable to
handle MIME. Nowadays all email programs are able to handle MIME and the
content of the individual MIME digest messages is still plain text, it's
not something ugly like HTML. However, after a while we decided to drop
digest entirely. Both were joint decisions of the majority of users, it
was not enforced by the admins or moderators. Like the Ubuntu users
list, the mentioned list is a mailman 2 list. But mailman 2 is another
issue, unrelated to your request.

Regards,
Ralf