Re: Mailing List Manager

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: Mailing List Manager

On or near 4/27/01 10:08 AM, Christian M. M. Brady at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> On 4/27/01 11:52 AM, "Bryan Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
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>>> On 4/26/01 22:33, Rich Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>>>> Just out of curiosity, why would one want to "burst" a digest into
>>>>> individual messages, when one can just subscribe to a discussion list in
>>>>> individual message delivery mode?
>>>>
>>>> Because there are any number of lists which come out only in Digest. I
>>>> belong to at least two. And yes I burst them for better reading.
>>>
>>> When there are high-volume lists or lists where there are a lot of
>>> attachments (like people with those rotten .vcards), I subscribe to the
>>> digest and burst. It's a lot easier.
>>
>> But doesn't it drive you nuts how 'rage becomes absolutely unresponsive
>> while it's bursting?
>
> Hmm. I suppose that may be true, but since 1) digests, by definition, only
> come once or twice a day it doesn't happen very frequently and 2) I have
> never noticed it to last more than a second or so. Hardly disruptive to me
> and my work habits. YMMV,
>
First, going back to the original issue of blank messages after bursting: The eMA digest is a Yahoo digest, right? My guess is that it is not in standard digest format, and that Erage's "burst" facility isn't handling it correctly. There was a script, "Burst OneList Digest," posted by Phil Kearney originally for OE. I have ported it to Erage for myself. I use a script, Burst Universal, that uses that script when the list is from Yahoo, and otherwise tries the "burst" command; if that fails, it then tries "Burst Malformed Digest". Take a look on my scripts page in the "Extract" folder.

Second, about the pause thing while bursting. It <does> drive me nuts when it happens without warning. Therefore, I don't burst in MLM. For very high interest lists I receive the individual messages. For others, I receive the digest and then I scan it. If the subjects look interesting (and sometimes they are not), I run the Burst Universal Script. Otherwise I just delete the entire digest.

Other options: try Digest Viewer (very nice app). You have to save the digest as a text file and then open it in the viewer, but it works very nicely, and puts threads together for you. I have a script that saves the digest and then opens it in Digest Viewer when I hit Control-Shift-X.

Script is called Save Digests As Text, and yes, it is on my web site in the Export/Import folder. The version there lacks the automatic opening in Digest Viewer; to add that, just put"

tell application "Finder" to open theFile

As the last action in "ProcessMsg"...like this:

            end tell --
            tell application "Finder" to open theFile
        end if
    on error theMsg
        display dialog theMsg
    end try
end ProcessMsg --

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