Things could be made a little bit better if people trimmed away the unnecessary material in their emails, but this wouldn't completely solve the problem you're facing, and it would mean a lot of extra work for everyone else that would be of little to no value for most people following the mailing list.
You might consider not using digest mode and using the web based mobile interface for GMail. It does such a good job of handling exactly the situation you've described, that it's become my default way of managing emails on my phone. I generally don't like web based interfaces, but GMail's is so clean and handles threads and conversations so well, it more than makes up for the inconveniences of a web based interface, at least in my opinion! On 14/09/11 12:12, Farfar on Laptop wrote: > That's just what you get with digest -- a concatenation or collection of all > messages received during the day, complete with all headers and threads. I > never use digest for that very reason. Easier to step through subject in the > inbox and read/delete as desired. > > Dave Carlson >>From my Dell Latitude 630. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:05 > Subject: [Talks] Reading the Talks Group Emails. > > > > Dear List Members! I really enjoy reading all the mails and have learned a > lot about Talks and related topics. I am a bit surprised about the format of > the emails I get. The format is not very conducive for use with Talks. Let > me try and explain. > The emails can be recieved individually or in Digest mode. I chose the > latter. Reason- I get all emails together. My inbox is not filled with the > List mails. i get all mails in one package. So far so good. Now When I start > to have talks read the mails, the format is very tedious. It takes forever. > . . . This is because every message comes with the trailing message. So I > have to hear the same mails many times. Also I cannot move from one topic to > another quickly. I have to scroll forever to get past all the email headers, > footers and the rest of email jargon before I read the actual message! And > after all that, the message may be just "Thanks" or "I agree". > Can we not get the emails with a kind of conversation format? No repeats and > no extra stuff. Just the name of the sender followed by the message. This > could be like a "chat" screen. This would make for much faster reading by > Talks. It would also maintain continuity of the topic thread. > Can anyone help? Or am I not doing something right? Help please. > Many blessings! > > _______________________________________________ > Talks mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks > > Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: > eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ > and > Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talks mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks > > Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: > eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ > and > Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ -- Christopher (CJ) [email protected] _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list [email protected] http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/
