Hi Jim,
I don't have an answer to your question about the subject about this
particular Discuss Digest, because I don't subscribe to the list using
digest format. However, I have an alternative suggestion if you wish
to follow the list and get an idea of threads and content:
Use the Mail Archive web pages for this list at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/
You can read all the current content organized by date or by thread,
and use access keys. If you are using Safari, by default, this page
will come up in threaded mode. Control-I will switch this to
(chronologically) indexed mode, where posts are listed by date (most
recent first).
This is a searchable archive, and you can navigate it with access
keys, to read the next post in the thread (Control-N) or the previous
post in the thread (Control-P). A more detailed description is given
in this post from the archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg39501.html
This is how I read the posts on this list when I am away from my
mail. The ability to perfom Boolean searches or searches by author,
or date range, is great, although I most commonly just run simple
searches by pressing tab and then typing in a few search terms. If
you are not using Safari, I believe the access key for Internet
Explorer may be Alt instead of Control.
I don't know whether digest mode includes a topic summary, if this
doesn't appear in the Subject line.
Justin Harford wrote:
I have had people tell me this before, that they prefer to read
plaintext emails instead of rich text, but I have never managed to
get one of them to explain why. Could you tell me?
I also prefer to read emails in plain text. Plain text is about
content rather than form and formatting, and takes substantially less
space in your mail box. Many people who send HTML mail have their
systems set up so that a plain text version is supplied for mail
readers (usually on unix and linux systems) that don't use HTML, and
then a second version of the same message with HTML code sequences is
tacked on. For people who are on dial-up modem connections or who pay
by either connect time or amount of data transferred this is just a
waste of their time and storage resources. On university unix
systems, HTML in mail is usually a sign that it likely originates from
a Windows PC, and is also more likely to carry problematic
attachments, since these systems at least historically have been more
frequently hacked.
Cheers,
Esther
