> > Why should we eliminate digests? > > 1. I know of no-one who still uses dial-up UUCP for their mail feed. > Even a basic "always-on" Internet service is orders of magnitude > faster than a Hayes modem so the savings in protocol overhead are > insignificant and the savings in cost non-existent. > 2. Users of digests frequently don't fully understand how they work, or > how to use their MUA to deal with them. A typical error is to reply > to a digest rather than replying to the specific message *within* > the digest (something supported by many MUAs, including Evolution, > as long as the digest is MIME-formatted, which ours is by default). > The upshot is that the user either a) re-sends the entire digest as > quoted material in his reply (in pathological cases this could > happen multiple times with exponentially growing messages), or b) > attempts to be a good citizen by editing the reply to exclude the > extraneous material and changing the Subject back to what it should > be, without realising that this breaks message threading and annoys > everyone else. > 3. Extra cruft in list handling software and mail clients (MUAs). For > backwards-compatibility reasons we're probably stuck with these > costs, but I mention them for completeness.
4. We're users of Evolution (that's why we are here) - Evolution has tools for filtering list posts easily into a different folder. I can't see that there is much difference between a folder full of emails and an email full of emails. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
