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

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