Doug Brewer wrote:
> I may just be dense, but I don't see the advantage. Can someone
> explain it to me well enough that I will feel compelled to devote time
> to it?
Hi Doug,
Hey -- don't be so hard on yourself! I don't read the digest anymore, but I
used to when Pentax was still the official maintainer of the PDML. I think
the advantage is that it sets off one message from the others fairly
clearly. I remember on the old digest that without those numbers, it would
have been sometimes difficult to determine where one message ended and
another began, primarily because of the different ways users employed to
indicate quoted messages to which they were responding. Some folks put the
quoted portions before, some put quoted portions after, some included
headers while others didn't, some set quotes off by indenting, some by
leading ">" characters, etc. It helped the readability of the digest when
the different messages were clearly set off from one another and numbered
consecutively, and it also helped you tell how far to scroll if you were
looking for a specific topic -- for example, scrolling through a 40-message
digest looking for message number 27.
Hope this helps you decide whether it'll be worth the effort.
Bill Peifer
Rochester, NY
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