In article <[email protected]>, Tricia Garner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 Mar, in article > <8f18b3c749ca5517d1f25a4db079e5d1-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUNBAjBeX15ZVF0WXVloCVQ6XFxcQ0IDWFhdQg==-webmailer2@s, > m0n0 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Montag, den 26.03.2012, 00:37 +0200 schrieb Tim Hill > > <[email protected]>:
> > > Why's it there? Are there still people on dialup who need it? > > Generally this feature is offered by the Mail list managers to > > provide users an option limit the amount of mails they get. This > > has nothing to do with dialup. It's just less annoying to get 1 > > mail once a day, instead of getting 40 mails... > > I'm subscribed to several mail lists and I like the digest feature. > > Greets, > > m > How can one loooong email with all the replies in all the threads > which people haven't snipped repeated again and again possibly be > less annoying than 40 emails? Just curious. It is a matter of personal preference. For me I prefer the one long digest rather than many emails. Obviously others prefer all the single emails.
