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Re: Debit of messages/FAQ question

Christev,

Doesn't a digest form make replying a lot harder? You have to extract a subject line from the digest and, depending on your mailer, you have to edit down the included original content (Eudora will restrict the quoted text to the selection if there is one and use the full message otherwise). Also you break message threading via the "Message-ID:" and "References:" headers.

Searching your message archive with "AND" and "OR" searches gets harder since each message contains multiple topics.

For these reasons, I've never been fond of digests. I suppose if there was a list that I knew I'd only read or at least only rarely reply, a digest might be OK.


By the way, I'm not advocating splitting the list, just stating why I don't use digest mode.


Also, if someone knows of email client software that addresses these shortcomings (and has topic threading and good filtering and is cross-platform, including Windows and Linux / Unix and Mac), I'd like to hear about it. I'm looking to retire Eudora. I checked out Sylpheed, but it uses MH format (a separate file per message) to store its messages, and that produces far too much overhead for my purposes (I have a huge mail archive). I'm aware of Mozilla / Netscape, of course.


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 23:16 2002-08-30, you wrote:
I find the 'Digest Mode' very useful in its current form.

The 'subject' description is useful to skip the items that aren't of current personal interest.

As opposed to the view below, I find the quoted lines within the context of the message much more useful than having to go off to other files to recall/find what the heck they are talking about.

I think that splitting the list would just add to the problem - would require going to two lists when before you went to one.

Often the number of items in a Digest is exaggerated as there is a 'bug' in the listing process, ie. some automation process involved (I presume), counts a multiple line topic header as two topics eg. Below, the subject header reports 8 messages, when in fact there are only7:


Steve

]Today's Topics:
]
]Subject: java-dev digest, Vol 3 #587 - 8 msgs
]
] 1. Music Notation programs in Java, was: ANN: Five Line Skink
] version 1.0b2 (Gerd Castan)
] 2. 10.2 Java update available separately? (Seth Tisue)
] 3. setAcceleratorKey(); (Craig Bakalian)
] 4. Re: 10.2 Java update available separately? (Shawn Erickson)
] 5. RMI Newbie Question (Dean Wagner)
] 6. Re: setAcceleratorKey(); (Steve Roy)
] 7. Re: RMI Newbie Question (Ronald Guest)

Or example: "java-dev digest, Vol 3 #685 - 20 msgs" ... when there were only really
16.

email@hidden wrote:

>
> Steve Roy <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> >I think the suggestion to split the list in two is become more and more
> >relevant.
>
> Try switching to digest mode...
>
> -- GG
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