On 6/6/02 12:49 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, I wrote a similar script for myself, but never bothered to clean > it up for public consumption, since nobody else on the list seemed to show > much interest in Digest Viewer. > > I have DV for X, and have used it, but for the most part, I now receive list > mail as individual messages. It makes for easier handling, by and large, and > easier to save information I want while deleting the bulk of the messages > that I don't care about. There are several advantages to using DV over Entourage. The differences are most important if you receive large digests containing dozens of messages, and lots of threads. DV does a better job of threading in its subjects pane, so all messages on a given topic are grouped together, and sequenced by date. I can set Entourage to sort a message list by subject, but a subject like "[filmscanners] Black levels" gets separated from "[filmscanners] Re: Black levels." In DV, I can use the up/down arrow keys to quickly scan through messages within a thread, and the left/right arrow keys to skip over threads that I am not interested in reading. In DV, I can select a discontiguous set of messages in the subjects pane and save them into a file, or append them to an existing file. Entourage can do the same, with the proper AppleScript. But with DV, you can reopen the file and browse it as if it was an original digest. I get a couple of large daily digests. DV lets me skim them quickly, saving any messages I want to keep into individual files or archives. Then I usually delete the digest file. If I received these messages as individual emails in Entourage, I would spend more time filtering out the ones I want to read, and selecting and deleting the ones I never read. -- Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
