On Dec 24, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Dan wrote:
At 3:08 PM -0500 12/24/2011, Barry Levine wrote:
change settings to the digest version.
To be honest, I really wish there was a way to kill off the
digesting completely. Data-wise, it saves very little. It delays
sending of messages so your (generic) replies are out of sync with
other replies. And it totally breaks threading - few people
remember to fix the subject field and it never propagates reference
headers.
For people who don't want to receive every message immediately, there
are solutions like browsing the archives and (in theory) RSS feeds.
These are read-only, of course, but if I ran a list I would reject
replies to digests emails anyway. For the bandwidth-conscious I
would propose a list manager extension that allows you to request
that a group of messages be re-sent to you. That might be nice to
have in any case.
If the issue is merely that you don't like being notified about
trivial mail every 5 minutes when you're trying to get something
done, have the list mail routed into a folder. Apple Mail still goes
ding, but you learn to ignore that, and new mail in a folder doesn't
count toward Mail's unread mail badge count.
Josh
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