Dave, The digest is not of this list, it's of the Codeplex issues activity, and here's the previous thread on the topic: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ironpython-users/2011-June/015003.html
~Jimmy On Jul 3, 2011, at 11:25 AM, David Bagby <d...@mvcalypso.com> wrote: > Hi List, > > I've been reading the list for a couple of months as part of an effort to > learn more about Iron Python. > > I thought I'd speak up about the recent decision to start sending the list > daily digest to the list (as an email).... > I rather dislike the side effect of this and wanted to explain why... turning > this option on has created a recursive problem. > > If a list subscriber gets the list content as individual emails, the digest > is just one more email they get - > > However, if you choose to get the list email as a daily digest (as I do), > sending the digest as an email to the list causes the digest to be inserted > into the daily digest email.... and that makes for a very hard to read digest. > It also effectively doubles content of the digest (as today's digest ends up > including an email from yesterday which is all of the prior day's digest). > This is ugly enough when you get daily digests, I hate to think about what > this would look like if one opted for weekly digests instead of daily (I > don't remember if this list offers weekly digests, some other lists I > subscribe to do). > > When someone then replies to an email and does not trim the quoted reply... > well, at that point the you have a pretty massive amount of text within which > it is darn near impossible to find the "new" content. > > Now think about trying to read that on a typical mobile device (as I often do > on my android phone)..... one ends up having to scroll thru pages and pages > of useless text. > > The net effect for me is that this recent change to the list has made reading > the list painful enough that I've found myself just deleting the list emails > instead of reading them. :-( > > So, just in case anyone is counting raised hands, mine is up for "please turn > this digest is sent to the list option back off". > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Ironpython-users mailing list > Ironpython-users@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users
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