Patrick, My main reason for subscribing to the digest is that many topics which are discussed on the list do not fully pertain to me. Some subjects interest me and are worth my time following closely. For others, it's nice to know what's going on at a high level without having to deal with the entire messages. Those discussions which were of particular interest to me I could "star" and get detailed updates. When I was done reading through a digest, I could delete it and not have 53 emails per day taking up space in my inbox that I'm absolutely *never* going to read again. Not that my Gmail account is running low on space, it's just wasteful, unnecessary, and not well-organized to keep stuff like that longer than needed.
I am very familiar with threaded conversations. However, if you had ever seen a digest email from a Google Group, you would know that they take "navigating through the discussions nice and easy" to a whole new level, and *that* is what I'm going to miss from the old list enough that I started this discussion. Mike From: Patrick Nagel <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:50:46 +0800 Subject: Re: A Comment on Cosmetics Hi, On 2010-12-08 23:13, Mike Mabey wrote: > I don't know how many other people subscribe to the list as a digest, but I > must say that I'm really going to miss the format of the Google Group digest > email, which was very easy to read and easy to pick out discussions of > interest to me. In stark contrast, the Apache Incubator digest is just a > long, text-only, really long concatenation of emails, that is somewhat > painful to read through. > > Does anyone else feel the same way? Is there anything that can be done > about it? > > So long, beautiful, colorful digest. You will be missed! just out of curiosity, what are your reasons for reading the list as a digest? I'm having sieve rules in place, that sort incoming mailing list mails directly into IMAP folders on the mail server (so they never even end up in my inbox). When I have time, I can change to that folder and read what's new. Also, the threaded view, that nowadays every mail client offers, makes reading and navigating through the discussions nice and easy. Patrick.
