The daily digest is just the digest of the bug tracker for the day, not the normal messages. On Jul 4, 2011 9:22 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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