Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slus...@horde.org>
[...]
MIME Digests are preferred to help you *read* the list traffic. They
aren't designed to be easy to reply to.
Plain text digests are harder to read, but easier to edit when replying.
Not much you can do about that. A good MUA should only ever generally
reply to text in the "body" part (i.e. the first readable message
part), which is what IMP does.
A MUA could be designed to allow individual replying to a
multipart/digest part via the original "master" message address.
However this is a *very* specific operation that would not be used by
many people, so at least for purposes of IMP it is not a priority.
I understand that point and didn't want to make a fuzz about it. It
just hit my eyes that mailman declares MIME format as preferred (as
you can tell, I was checking that setting, in order to turn it off -
turning it on was a user error in the first place), while handling it
was sub-optimum ;)
I fully agree on priority (which in my eyes is currently "zero").
Whenever someone is looking for a "Horde summer of code" task,
implementing mailing list awareness for IMP could be an option :D (I
think that ML traffic is not that seldomly seen in our circles).
Quite honestly, IMHO it is much easier to read a list via individual
message anyway. If using mail filters to filter your mailing list
messages into separate mailboxes, there is very little (if any)
benefit from using a digest.
On some of my small-factor clients, the support for sub-folders in
mailboxes is "making me unhappy". So new mail must go into INBOX only,
where individual messages cause too much noise. That's a personal
decision, just my 0.02 €.
Zitat von Ralf Lang <l...@b1-systems.de>
In some projects I follow, replying to digests is discouraged because
it usually does not include the threading-related stuff and often even
the topics are not adjusted. Nobody wants to guess after a week or so
if the activesync-related mail was in topic "Digest of week 20" or
"Digest of 2013-03-05".
Yes, although I'm fully aware of the problems such mis-use causes to
others, even I sometimes miss all required changes (<rant>amongst
others: change the IMP user profile to a "no signature" one</rant>)
when replying to MLs at late hours or when in a rush.
<dream style="thoughts: free-flow;">It's be nice if someone would
develop a Horde application that
- can be used to register a mailing list subscription
- checks if such a subscription is already available in a shared
folder the user has access to
- organizes to filter corresponding messages into some common,
eventually even shared folder, eventually "unpacking" digests if
required.
- offers a web-based reader/responder interface on a per message base.
</dream>
Let's close this topic before someone gets a false impression... it
was started by my irony detector ;)
Regards,
Jens
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