On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:43:13 -0500 tneff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is that they don't really Digest or pack anything, or > save any space, or do anything except collate a bunch of stuff > into a multipart sandwich. Precisely. That's exactly what they're intended to do, and is what is so useful about them. > There's precious little of use to be done with them that you > couldn't do just as easily by getting individual messages and > putting them into a folder, which more mail agents can > successfully do than will handle all the exploding and stuff. <shrug> UI/feature problems with MUAs is not a big concern for me. FWLIW Some MUAs support indicating a specific message that you wish to reply to in a MIME digest and then generating a reply buffer from there exactly as if the message had been burst. On a more human scale I've several (a little over a dozen that I know of) members who specifically want/require their messages bundled in time. I moderate one of my lists (which is hand moderated) once a day. Traffic runs somewhere between 20 and 50 posts a day on average. Several members have stated that if I didn't moderate so infrequently they would resort to digest mode instead and would then never post. > As the original poster said, they are useless for the thing > Digests were really good for, which was saving a lot of overhead > and scanning a day's traffic in a single read. Umm, actually that's exactly what I use them for. This is rather helped by the fact that exmh (my choice of MUA) presents a usable and reasonably well featured UI for MIME digests making using them easy and pleasant. Don't blame the weaknesses of your selection of tools on the material. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
