Quoting [email protected]: > In article <[email protected]>, Jim Nagel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] wrote on 29 Mar: > > > >> 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. > > > Doesn't your email system have filters, Evan (and Allan and "m0n0")? > > A filter sends all those 40 Netsurf emails into a Netsurf folder. > > Then you just skim the subject lines and open only the ones that > > interest you. > > > And with threading as well as a filter, you don't even see many > > subject lines. > > As I said, its a matter of personal preference. Not everyone wants to > do as you do. > > Why so evangelical?
Because digests are pretty much a read-only way of seeing postings, yet people sometimes reply to one item. When they do so, it makes a complete mess of the thread. I have to admit that I can't see the upside of digests, and I can see a big downside. Dave
