On 16/12/05, Marc Boncz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This thread is starting to get off topic, but anyway... > > > A daily digest is extremely useful for people with limited > > connectivity. If you are paying by the minute over a slow > > connection, then collecting 50+ emails (with all the requoted > > stuff) wouldn't be viable. Same if you pay by the byte. > A digest also makes sense for people with a broadband connection who do > want > to stay tuned to important messages, and thus keep a sound associated with > incoming mail, but who don't want to be bothered the whole day long by > their > PC announcing listmessages coming in. Most of those are not really > important, after all. > > Subscribing to the digest thus is like subscribing to a newspaper instead > of > keeping a TV set on the whole day, tuned to CNN: attention has to be paid > only once a day. > Added bonus: when you travel and have to access your mailbox through a > webmail interface, your mailbox will be much cleaner thanks to the smaller > number of mails. > > > > The problem is in human imagination. > > > The daily digest option should be remove by > > > YahooGroups. Instead use filters. > Nope. Receiving >60 listmessages plus quite a bit of work related per day > I > would be wasting a lot of time switching to the mailclient to check if > what > just came in was important and stayed in 'inbox' or was just a message > from > some list that went to the 'list X' folder. > > Anyway, any filter should be capable of directing the digests to the same > folder as the normal listmessages (provided you filter on 'sender') so > then > the only remaining problem is thread integrity. And that is easily solved > by > directing all 'Re: [listname] Digest%' to trash... > > Marc > > P.S.: for those curious to see how their mailclient handles threats I just > changed the subject of this message from '[php-list] Digest Number 1891' > to > 'Re: Digest Number 1889' > > > > Community email addresses: > Post message: [email protected] > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Shortcut URL to this page: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list > > > > SPONSORED LINKS > Php > mysql<http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=ms&k=Php+mysql&w1=Php+mysql&w2=Job+postings&c=2&s=33&.sig=FLGkJVBUdDMln4PBO26sng> > Job > postings<http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=ms&k=Job+postings&w1=Php+mysql&w2=Job+postings&c=2&s=33&.sig=cV3rp9pSpCxahJy7imon_w> > ------------------------------ > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > - Visit your group "php-list<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list>" > on the web. > > - To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > - Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > ------------------------------ > It always has been 1899 - where did you get 1891 from?
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