Hello, I just posted posting with the uninformative subject of "Re: vnc-list-digest V1 #1437". This is not the last time that I or others will forget to change the subject line. Such is the pitfall of receiving the digest rather than individual emails. But, I'm sure most readers will agree that getting many individual emails from the mailing list is not manageable. Since this is not a newsgroup, I can't cancel the posting, I can only repost it at the risk of annoying everyone and getting admonished for wasting bandwidth.
So I'd like to ask about a suggestion that someone made not too long ago before he got promptly shot down for it. Why not an HTML digest with links to the individual postings in the archive? This would save bandwidth, and we could reply to individual postings (with meaningful default subject lines). Also, it would be much easier to skip from one posting to the next in the same thread. If the posting attached lots of prior postings in the same thread (or even the whole digest!), one wouldn't have to scan through serial document to find where the next true posting began. Does anyone know if this is simple to do? Is it simple enough to get the list manager organization to incorporate this capability, if it already exists? The only reason why it might be unattractive to some is if people are reading mail through text-only readers like elm or pine. (Does anyone still do this on a regular basis??). Even then, it is simple enough to fire up a browser on the local host to access a particular message or thread, if the http address is in the digest of links. Fred -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred Ma Department of Electronics Carleton University, Mackenzie Building 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
