[Coin-lpsolver] Re: Coin-lpsolver Digest, Vol 12, Issue 4

[Francois Margot]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Francois Margot wrote:
>
>> 
>>> 
>>> Message: 4
>>> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:36:37 -0400 (EDT)
>>> From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [Coin-lpsolver] Re: Coin-lpsolver Digest, Vol 12, Issue 3
>>> To: coin-lpsolver at list.coin-or.org
>>> Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0510141234050.10076 at access.ces.clemson.edu>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="x-unknown"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If your mail client supports it, read the digest in MIME format to see
>>> attachments properly.  Set your preferences at
>>> http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/coin-lpsolver.  Or use mail
>>> filters to collect list messages instead of digests.
>>> 
>> 
>> And what about the Web interface of the COIN site? No way to get the 
>> complete messages archived?
>
> Good point, now that you mention it.  Yes, there are apparently issues with 
> digesting and archiving mail in which the body is included in an attachment. 
> There may be a fix for this in an upcoming version of Mailman, but I don't 
> know when/if we'll see that in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux offering. 
> There are other archiving programs available that support Mailman, but I'm 
> not in a position to try them out at this point.  Maybe in the future...
>
> Meanwhile, I'll urge list posters to make sure that their mail clients are 
> configured so that message bodies are in plain text (not HTML) and are not 
> wrapped in attachments.

Isn't it possible to bounce messages not in plain text?

>
> I'll also urge text-mode digest readers to alter their subject lines when 
> they reply.  And I'll point out that replying to a digest rather than an 
> individual message (whether original or in a MIME-format digest) can break 
> threading in mail readers and in the archiver.

The problem is that if you ask to receive the digest, either you answer
to the digest (and will likely break the thread, even if the subject is
altered) or you don't answer at all. As far as I know, there is no way to
get an individual message sent to you after receiving the message in a digest, 
or is there?

Francois