From: Matthew Hunt
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:13 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> Without them I'd be off the list.
>
> I just don't have time enough to keep up otherwise.
I just don't understand this argument. The "interface" of a digest is
roughly the same as using "less $MAIL" to read the list. I don't see
how "read every single new message, in an order not of my choosing" is
a slow operation in any mail reader. Moreover, it seems like if
there's too much traffic for you to keep up with, you could achieve
big gains by NOT reading every single message... skip over the threads
or authors you're not interested in, which is a heck of a lot easier
with individual messages than a digest, especially if you employ
filters.
I don't know if I can explain, because I'm not sure I understand it
myself, but it just takes me less time to go through the messages in
digest form.
I originally subscribed to the list and the number of individual
messages overwhelmed me. I switched to the digests and it became manageable.
I scroll down the digests and can tell within a line or two at most if
I'm interested in an individual message, so it's no trouble to skip over
the ones I'm not interested in.
Perhaps it's because it's easier for me to tell from the message if I
*AM* interested in it, and because I can't tell that from just the
subject line or who the sender is.
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