On Wed, 7 May 2008, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 06May2008 09:24, Lucio Chiappetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it is possible to configure the list per-user to send daily MIME digests
instead of individual mails ?
To drift even further, I still don't understand why people prefer
digests. I filter lists into separate folders on delivery
Possibly at the end I would revert to something like that if I can't
subscribe to this (or other technical list) by digest.
Could you, as a digest preferrer, please explain what you like about
them?
I like the fact I receive a single digest per day, and I'd have to do
nothing about it on my side (not that I would not know how to emulate
what you suggest above by procmail, I do lot of other things by procmail
http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/Procmail/)
In general I have classified mailing lists in two categories, important
and secondary (most technical lists are secondary). Normally I receive
everything in my inbox (but a digest FORCES me to check it only daily and
ENFORCES this rule) ... when I go on holiday I divert all important lists
to a single separate folder (so that I can read it second-priority when I
come back), and all secondary lists to /dev/null.
Apart from that I normally look at the list of subjects at the beginning
of the digest. In most cases I conclude there is nothing interesting today
and delete the entire digest.
In the case there is something interesting, I'll expand the digest in a
temporary folder (just found a nice way to attach a formail invocation to
a single key in pine) and look at that.
NB strictly MIME digests with each message a separate RFC822 item.
I find digests handy even on non-technical lists. We have a "compulsory"
list for all the staff of my organization. In principle it should be used
only for announcements (conferences, jobs, etc.), but it is often used
also for trade union announcements, complaints, discussions, And every
time the traffic increases somebody start complaining, So we are thinking
to moderate it and create another discussion list. By default everybody
would be subscribed to the discussion list, but could unsubscribe. To
discourage people from unsubscribing, and to discourage real time
discussions (or "me too" messages) we are thinking to make digests the
default for the discussion list, so people would receive a daily digest
unless they require otherwise.
Anyhow, I repeat my question, is at all possible to receive digests from a
majordomo list like fvwm ?
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