On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 4:32 AM, Lucio Chiappetti <lu...@lambrate.inaf.it> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Matt Morgan wrote: > > The eventual publication looks a lot like a mailman digest, and that's >> what I'm switching it to. >> > > I see that over the weekend there was some discussion about digests, not > only in this thread ! > > I understand that mailman can do digests as a series of MIME attachments >> to the TOC email, one for each posting. I don't think that's going to work >> for this crowd, although I'm not sure. >> > > Personally I do use MIME digests (not plain text ones) for almost all the > lists I'm subscribed to (actually ALL which allow it). But then my MUA > (Alpine) with some customization (including a formail-based shell script) > can turn the MIME digests into a temporary mail folder, where I can access > each posting as a normal e-mail. And even if I would not have my scripts, > I could still natively view the attachment index and access the RFC822 > attachment one by one as a normal e-mail. > > I love how you subscribe to a digest then use your mailer to extract individual messages. This is real power-user territory! Now that I understand them, I think I'll start using MIME digests them for myself when I can. And I like offering the option. The question is more, what would I use as the default? And I think honestly that putting everyone on MIME digests would substantially decrease readership on this list. We'd be "hiding" posts in attachments--essentially adding a click or two before people can see them; and since the readers on this list are also the authors, that will discourage writing, too. Too risky! ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org