On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 10:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > List digests are a PITA and a holdover from when most people got their > mail via UUCP. However some people seem to like them so I guess they > have to be supported by MUAs, including Evo. > > Currently Evo lets you reply to a message within a digest, but quite a > few people don't seem to realize this is possible and end up replying to > the digest (and as often as not quoting the entire thing). This causes > much gnashing of teeth as it loses the threading and is a waste of > bandwidth, space, mental energy etc.. In fact some people don't even > edit the Subject line so you have no idea what they're replying to > without having to decipher the message. > > It occurs to me that a simple fix would be to automatically use the > "reply-to-digest-component" function when the user hits one of the Reply > options while looking at a digest. I can't think of a downside, unless > it's to make it impossible to reply to the entire digest, which is a > Good Thing(tm). > > Anyone? Should this also apply to forwarding? > > poc >
Your suggestion, if easily implemented without a lot of code, seems the best. I, for one, would not miss the digest option at all. I tried it on another list, many years ago, and found no advantage but lots of disadvantages. Bart _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
