oh .. i was just about to say that if nothing else works then use gmail filters to redirect it to the trash :D .. but i just noticed your email address is of the form *mycalypso.com .. I dont know if they have such cool filters. Always use gmail <3
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Slide <slide.o....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Ironpython-users mailing list > Ironpython-users@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users > >
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