I am most certainly not the admin of this LUG, but I would like to
take interest in the welfare of this mailing list.
If you are ever planning to reply in the LUG, the digest mode is not
what you want. Asking questions is a different beast since you create
the new subject. I would suggest you do the following.
A) You want to be active on the LUG
i) Create a new email-id for the lug. eg. If your name/nick of choice
is Foo Bar/FooBar, create a gmail id called FooBar.ilugc@xxxxxxxxx. (I
had a spare id that I created by mistake).
ii) Unsubscribe from the LUG mailing list for the old id
http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
iii) Resubscribe with the new id through the same page. ( You do not
lose any karma points for doing so :P ). This time, you know that you
have subscribed for only the LUG (and possibly a few other mailing
lists). So use the normal mode. Do not choose the digest mode
B) If you are passive on the mailing list or want to only ask
questions,
i) I would still recommend A
ii) Snip the unnecessary parts of the digest mail and retain only the
parts that you need
iii) *CHANGE THE SUBJECT* from Digest Volume XYZ to the real subject
of the conversation
I would still recommend that you subscriibe to the normal mode of the
mailing list. If you use gmail, you can put multiple inboxes to good
use for this. Create a filter for lug messages, add a label to it in
the actions option of the filter and use a separate inbox frame for
that filter alone.
By subscribing to the digest and changing the title, you are still
possibly ruining the coherency and the context of the message as
gmail(which most use) and most other email clients may not be able to
classify them as a part of the same thread. This ruins the flow of the
thread.
I find that you may be able to retain it in the same thread by keeping the
title as
Re: [ilugc] <Original Title in the thread>.
Do not prefix another Re: Use the initial thread posts's title
Any more tips are welcome.
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Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham