Hello Ralph, Doug, Groff List, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Alas, spooky.diff, allegedly at > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/attachments/20180626/6721611f/attachment.diff > > elicits 404 Not Found. It may be that some server or client is > > allergic to unusual file extensions. > > You subscribe to the digest. The non-digest email, message-ID > <20180626132744.hwfm4utrxrdsi...@crack.deadbeast.net>, arrived here with > all the parts attached. ... > So I think it's just the digest that broke? I've CC'd in the gnu.org > folks that tend to the Mailman lists for their interest.
The mailing list management software in use is GNU Mailman. Unfortunately GNU Mailman is buggy with regards to digests. It doesn't surprise me to read that Mailman isn't creating a digest correctly with regards to attachments. I am pretty sure I have run into that before. I don't need to tell you that mailing list digests are a very old feature often available from mailing list management software. However at this current time very few users know how to deal with digests and very few use them. Most users are not equiped to do so and use digests incorrectly. Therefore the feature gets very little use and less testing and bugs slip through. When dealing with digests it is a feature that only a small sliver of the user population is using. In fact my policy dealing with digest problems for the masses is to convert users from digests over to the non-digest regular mailing list mode. The regular mode is well tested and avoids the problems with GNU Mailman digest mode. I can only recommend that digest mode of Mailman be avoided. I recommend switching over to the regular mailing list mode. Note that I am simply one of the volunteers helping with the mailing lists. I don't speak in any capacity other than the practicality of working with Mailman and the mailing lists. I don't have any ability to fix bugs in Mailman myself. But if someone else were to look into the problem and make patches then I am sure we could get them installed. As they say, patches welcome. :-) Bob
