On 2020-08-10, at 15:38:14, Gary Weinhold wrote: > > i use digests for high-traffic listservs, but not assembler list. > For an experiment I wanted a small digest. It appears that ASSEMBLER-LIST publishes digests daily at 00:00.
> Thunderbird on PC seems to know to reply to the list and but then you > have to do a lot of deleting. > TBird on Mac lets me open a digest, then Message->Attachments shows me a table contents from which I can read and reply to individual messages. But I have to change To: back to the list. > But the redundancy within digests in > email reply chains is time-consuming to scroll through. > There's a strong argument here against top-posting and quoting the entire prior thread. (Notice that I'm inter-posting and I'll trim much of the matter below.) > On 2020-08-10 5:06 p.m., Charles Mills wrote: >> Is "by never signing up for a digest" a valid answer to your question? >> That's how I operate. I was investigating for a friend who publishes a digest. >> I hate digests because my entire exposure to them is from people who reply >> to the whole digest, mucking up the Listserve threads. >> The digest ought to say Reply-to: [email protected] with individual messages having Reply-to: list. [prior ply snipped] -- gil
