Jim Garland wrote: > I subscribe to the Elecraft email digest on QTH.NET, and also the FT-2000 > digest on Yahoo Groups. Maybe nobody feels the same way, but I find the > Elecraft digest very hard to read. Each Elecraft digest comes with many > email attachments, each of which has to be opened individually. The lead
The Elecraft list can be configured to operate in two different ways, neither of which should give you an anonymous list of messages with any reasonable modern email reader. The one I think you are describing is the current best practice for list digests. A good email program will display the messages inline, automatically switching to account for character set changes and people who insist on using HTML. Its big advantage is that it makes it completely clear to the email reader that it is dealing with a mail digest, so any failure to handle it well is the responsibility of the reader. The alternative is just to string the plain text versions into one long email. The problem with this option is that you need a high level of technical skill to reply to an article without breaking the threading. With the first format, even if the mail reader doesn't expand the articles in-line, it should display the titles. Microsoft Outlook even allows you to copy the articles, on masse, into an email folder, and then treat them exactly like individual emails. > email shows the number and title of all the postings (the last one had 54), > but the numbers aren't given in the subject for the other attachments, which > makes finding them problematic. I'd like to read the postings, but doing so > is too time consuming under the current setup, and I don't want to load up > my In Box with individual postings. Get a better email client! > > > > By contrast, the FT-2000 digest lists all the postings as links and one just > clicks on the desired posting to read it. I find it much easier to follow. I can only think of two ways of doing that. One is to not send the emails at all, requiring that you be online when reading them, and the other is to use HTML format with CID: links, which will bloat the download size and limit the use of simple email clients (providing that people stick to plain text, the standard digest format can still be read quite easily in a mail reader that doesn't understand MIME at all. > I might have a wrong setting somewhere, in which case just ignore this > message, but if by chance many other people are having the same problem, > then perhaps Elecraft should consider moving the reflector to Yahoo Groups. -- David Woolley "The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio" List Guidelines <http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
