I observed that several PLUGgers receiving digested/bundled mails
immediately reply to a message as soon as s/he reads something on the
message worth posting about. This is so that what we see on the
subject line is like "Re: plug Digest, Vol 17, Issue 45", which does
not make sense in one viewing.

Can I suggest to digest-mode subscribers replying to a certain message
to please edit the subject line so that the thread or topic being
initiated is made clear right from the start? Especially for Gmail
users, it's kind of weird for them to see threads (err, conversations)
like "Re: plug Digest, Vol 17, Issue 45".

For example, if you receive a digested mail that contains a message
about latest release of Samba, click your reply button (or press R for
mutt and/or pine?) and edit the subject line into a subject like
"Latest samba release" or "Latest samba release (was: Re: plug Digest,
Vol 17, Issue 45)". In this case, you're technically initiating a
topic, no longer replying to a message.

Also, when quoting digested mails, please care to snip them so that
only the subject matter (on the digested mail) you want to respond to
is shown. This avoids clutter and takes up less disk space.

For more on posting messages, please visit this netiquette guide by
Pablo Manalastas: http://plug.linux.org.ph/netiquette.html

Thanks.

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