Re: etiquette for replying to daily digests

On 9/11/24 18:37, Willy Manga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09/11/2024 16:00, nanog-request@nanog.org wrote:
>> [...]
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I (and I'm sure many of you) subscribe to daily digests from NANOG to 
>> keep
>> things concentrated. However, there are sometimes messages in the digest
>> I'd like to reply to, and I don't want to be that guy who just 
>> replies to
>> the digest and opens an ugly new thread.
>>
>> Curious what workflow/process any of you use to do so, and what the
>> best/netizen-polite way is to end up with a reply that's appropriately
>> threaded. Do I just need to mirror the subject line?
> 1. I locate the relevant message I want to reply
> 2. Delete everything before/after or with some mail client (like 
> Thunderbird) , I can just select the message and hit the 'reply' 
> button. It will include only the selected text
> 2. Copy exactly the subject line of the relevant message I want to 
> reply and if it doesn't yet contain a 'Re:' in front, I insert it.
>
> And that is exactly what I'm doing with this reply.
> [...]
>
FWIW this did appear as a new thread in my client (Thunderbird).

Replying to the digest like this breaks the proper reply link in the 
message headers, and relies on clients using heuristics like matching 
the subject and quoted text, which not all clients will do.