Is anybody still in charge of the digest engine or was it lost when the list's keys were sealed in the Arch of Alliance? And in that case, howcome the digest format just changed? (year in the subject, sender in the topic list)
I think the digest should strip the "unsubscribe" line from each post (it's only needed once per mail, whether that's a post or a digest). I consider removing those lines from the archive I'll build. By the way, I understand the theoretical purpose of the "Message-Id" and "Content-Type" lines, but I can't think of a reason to have them in digests. Would anybody cry if I removed them too from the archive? This would make the subject line easier to see. I wrote a script to experiment more readable digests (I know it breaks some standards, making it unsuitable for Digest Viewer, but when I read digests in Emailer I don't care if they would re-compose individual posts when saved to text and viewed in other programs, and anyway scripting it back to "standard" by removing the quote formatting would be trivial). It changes the sample below from block 1 to block 2, taking advantage of monospace fonts like Monaco and Emailer's quote level coloring: ---< this is first block >--- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 03 05:41:33 +0100 From: VRic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Emailer-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: emailer-talk archives Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Some text ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---< end of first block >--- ---<this is second block>--- ___________________________________________________________________________ >> |Date: Sat, 6 Dec 03 05:41:33 +0100 >> |From: VRic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> |To: "Mark James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> |Cc: "Emailer-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>|Subject: Re: emailer-talk archives Some text ---<end of second block>--- ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
