On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 23:50:52 +0000, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
> Except that what is being requested here is the opposite. Those of us
> who have been on the list a while know that the lack of proper Mime
> Digest support is one of Alex's chief complaints and his main reason
> for staying with the 'P' program. This request is for *less*
> discrimination of digests than TB is giving right now - to congeal a
> digest into a single, long message, instead of breaking it into
> component attachments.
This is not what the request is. MIME digests comprise
completely separate messages attached as TB! does. We have no problem
with that. Our axe lies with the method presently provided to view and
manage these messages. Pegasus opens a folder type interface for you
to view the messages fluently. Agent allows you to 'burst' the digest,
separating it into the various messages.
You may ask, why subscribe in digest form to then burst the
messages into separate messages. Well, for lists that aren't busy or
that I don't participate much in, it's nice to do a single download of
the days messages instead of sporadic downloads that animates TB!'s
systray icon, the only way of getting the icon animation stopped is to
either read the message or mark it as read. There are work arounds
yes, but one of them is a MIME digest. ;)
> FWIW, if the attachments are content type Text then they should appear
> as Tabs at the bottom of the view window. Each Tab should contain a
> distinct message. This should get around the lack of discernable file
> extension and the resulting lack of association for the attachments
> when you attempt to open then. I don't know for sure - I have never
> wanted nor requested digests, preferring separate and threaded
> messages.
This is not what happens and this isn't what should happen
anyway. :-/
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