On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 15:37 -0600, Bart wrote: > 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.
+1 > 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. Yep; with modern clients I completely don't see the point of digests [so what if you get 34 messages a day from a list?]. But then I still have users you struggle to manage their e-mail. It isn't the clients or the interface - the problem is the user themselves. And that is unsolvable. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list