On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 11:44 -0500, Saravanan wrote: > Hello, > > I am passive reader of both R-devel and R-help mailing lists. I am > sending the following comments to r-devel as it seemed more suitable. I > am aware that this list uses GNU mailman for the list management. I have > my options set that it sends a email digest. One thing I find is that > the digest consists of emails that ordered temporarlly. For eg lets say > there are two threads t1 and t2 and the emails arrive as e1 of t1, e2 of > t2, e3 of t3 . The digest lists them as e1,e2 and then e3. Is it > possible to somehow configure it as T1 : e1,e3 and then T2 : e2 ? > > This is the digest format that google groups uses which is incredibly > helpful as you can read all the messages in a thread. Additionally, it > also helpfully includes a header that lists all the threads in digest so > that you can jump to the one you are interested in. I checked the > mailman options but could not find any. > > Does anyone else have the same issue? It is not a big issue in R-devel > but R-help is a much more high traffic mailing list. I am interested in > hearing how you read/filter your digest mails in either R-help or other > high volume mailing lists.
This really has nothing to do with R, but rather mailman. I use folders, filtered on the server using SIEVE and/or procmail. No digest required. I get the mails immediately, not later in the day or the next day, and can use all my various email clients easily to read/respond. mailman supports a MIME digest format that includes a table of contents with links to each MIME part. mailman does not support a threaded digest, to the best of my knowledge. Regards, - Brian -- Brian G. Peterson http://braverock.com/brian/ Ph: 773-459-4973 IM: bgpbraverock ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
