I used to read digests cause I got too many emails and was on tons and tons of email lists about various topics of interest. Now, for a lot of that stuff I just read message forums and don't bother with email. There is just no way I could keep up with the amount of conversation that goes on in those communities, and that is why they have forums rather than lists. Lists are really only good for a small group of people that are frequently writing to each other. I'll be honest, a lot of my email is opt in marketing email or coordinating in person events with friends and groups I am involved with. (cause I for one don't answer phone messages, too much spam on the phone these days.)
On Saturday, November 2, 2019, 12:10:42 PM EDT, J.B. Nicholson <[email protected]> wrote: Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > Is there something wrong with them per se? Except, that most of the > people have no clue how to use them properly, I mean. I find that most MUAs don't handle digests well and this creates needless thread breaking. I don't blame the software mishandling on the user. Digests also lead to followup posts with excessive quoted material from people who don't edit out the superfluous text. That I do blame on the user, as they could take time to edit that out, but I also blame on digests because the digesting (by its nature) gives users so much more text to work with. I don't believe digests have been in high demand for the past decade or so (based on what I have seen of the mailing lists I've administered). These days people seem to have no problem getting email accounts with high quotas. Storage seems to only get cheaper per volume with time. So I don't find storage-related arguments to be convincing. Paying for bandwidth to the endpoint also strikes me as a poor argument; people don't seem to object to using webmail or mail client protocols which do a good job of letting people download the specific set of emails they want to read (IMAP, for example, and I think JMAP looks like it will continue in this way). Taken as a whole, I'm convinced that whatever benefit came from mailing list digests has passed and thus support for digested mailing is not worth taking on the complexity of "proper" (as you say) implementation or use. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [1][email protected] [2]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
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