On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 18:00 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > 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.
Well put. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
