On 07/14/2020 8:28 AM David Lewin <david@...> wrote:

Not so simple!  I ignore the newfangled response options and use "reply to all". That bring up main@...  twice for some unknown reason, so I delete one of them.  I then look for the email of the sender and ensure that this, too, is in the "Address To:-"  location

I also copy and paste as "quoted" the message to which I am reacting, so that the reader can see what I am writing about 

Hash tags are something I have never learned, so until someone teaches me, I use none, in the same way I have done for decades.

At 10:23 14/07/2020, Eva Lawrence wrote:

I apologise for the omission. I clicked the link 'reply to this
message' and also used the same subject line as the query in my
response. Unfortunately that wasn't picked up. Perhaps I should have
used a hashtag? . If we gave the number of the digest and the number
of the message we are replying to, this would not cater for the people
who receive each message as it is posted. Could each message posted
have a unique reference number? That might be a simple solution and easy to implement. . I'd like to avoid receiving the same conversations many times in my inbox, each iteration longer than the last. Inboxes get
cluttered up enough already.. Unique reference numbers would also
become long and unwieldy, but we start the numbering afresh every year