Matt Giuca
The most annoying thing for the rest of the participants is that when someone replies to a digest, the subject line suddenly changes to "Free-software-melb Digest, Vol 20, Issue 13" and we lose track of the conversation topics.
Yes. The “Subject” field is set to something useless, *and* the “References” field refers to a message we can't see, which breaks the thread. So that's two significant reasons why replying to a list digest message is a hindrance to the other participants in the conversation. But I was primarily highlighting the benefits to the person replying, and leaving implicit my complaints :-) -- \ “Anyone who puts a small gloss on [a] fundamental technology, | `\ calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from | _o__) building on it, is a thief.” —Tim O'Reilly, 2000-01-25 | Ben Finney