I think his point was that even though receiving the Codeplex summary may be in a usable (or ignorable) format when following this distribution normally, if you follow this mailing list by receiving a daily digest instead of traditionally receiving one email per post, it severely impacts the usability of the mailing list daily digest email.
Jimmy Schementi <jscheme...@gmail.com> wrote: 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> 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<mailto: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<mailto:Ironpython-users@python.org> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users
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