Barry Warsaw writes:
> On Aug 14, 2016, at 02:01 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> >The biggest problem I'm seeing is with digests. Can that feature be
> >flagged off as "DO NOT USE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ASKING
> >FOR"? So many people seem to select digest mode, then get extremely
> >confused by it.
"So many"? Of the 5018 posts on this list I've received since Sept
24, 2015 (some were private replies etc, but only a handful), exactly
three were inappropriate replies to digests.
In the first, on May 2, 2016, the poster very carefully changed the
subject, provided a well-organized summary of the posts he had
received, and then didn't trim. Failure to trim is a practice that
has been common ever since Guido started top-posting from his phone a
couple years back. I don't think this is a symptom of "confusion."
In the second, on July 8, the poster top-posted on a quoted digest
without any way to determine what content he was replying to.
However, this person is a reasonably frequent poster since, and has
not done it again. Initial confusion, yes, but no real harm done.
In the third, on August 2, we have the same as the second. Again, it
hasn't happened again although this person has posted a few times
since. (That may be due to you advice to turn off digests.)
I don't think this is anywhere near as damaging to the list as the
practice of top-posting (let alone the bottom-posts, which are more
frequent than reply-to-digest).
> Yes, we can turn off digests for python-ideas, or any Mailman mailing list.
>
> I was tempted to JFDI, but it would mean that ~25% of list members would no
> longer get messages. That's because 254 out of 979 members are currently
> receiving digests.
Is this really sufficient reason for eliminating a feature that more
than 1 in 4 subscribers has explicitly chosen? Most of whom never post?
How about instead adding
"^Subject:.*Python-Ideas Digest, Vol \d+, Issue \d"
to the spam filter, and so imposing moderation delay (or even
rejection) on the poster?
Steve
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