List digests are a PITA and a holdover from when most people got their
mail via UUCP. However some people seem to like them so I guess they
have to be supported by MUAs, including Evo.
Currently Evo lets you reply to a message within a digest, but quite a
few people don't seem to realize this is p
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 10:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> List digests are a PITA and a holdover from when most people got their
> mail via UUCP. However some people seem to like them so I guess they
> have to be supported by MUAs, including Evo.
>
> Currently Evo lets you reply to a message
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 15:37 -0600, Bart wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 10:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > List digests are a PITA and a holdover from when most people got their
> > mail via UUCP. However some people seem to like them so I guess they
> > have to be supported by MUAs, includ
re I could see "reply to sender", "reply to list", and
"reply to all", but no to "reply to message within digest". Using the
"reply to list" item created a reply, but the subject was "Re:
evolution-list Digest, Vol 68, Issue 45" rather than &qu
ld see "reply to sender", "reply to list", and
> "reply to all", but no to "reply to message within digest". Using the
> "reply to list" item created a reply, but the subject was "Re:
> evolution-list Digest, Vol 68, Issue 45" rather
but I'm unsure which ones to install.
> >
> > I named them above. With "related to evolution" is usually meant any
> > package which has "evolution" in its name. Like if you are using
> > evolution-exchange or evolution-mapi, then these too.
>
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 09:38 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 20:18 +1000, Peter Cave wrote:
> > I hope I am complying this time - am really unfamiliar with lists.
>
> That's awesome. You quoted an entire digest message to reply to a
> thread about why digest messages are obso
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 20:18 +1000, Peter Cave wrote:
> I hope I am complying this time - am really unfamiliar with lists.
That's awesome. You quoted an entire digest message to reply to a
thread about why digest messages are obsolete and evil and how we can
prevent users from directly replying t
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 20:18 +1000, Peter Cave wrote:
[Entire redundant quote of digest deleted]
> I hope I am complying this time - am really unfamiliar with lists.
You're not, see below.
[...]
> Intuitively my intention would be (as in this message) to reply to the
> list but change the Subje
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 09:40 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Nothing to do with Down Under. Corporate email is fixated on top-posting
> as a way to record the entire history of a conversation (since no
> trimming is done either). This is reinforced by email clients such as
> Outlook and now many
> Nothing to do w/ corporate email or BB's. It's much easier to reply &
> it's much easier to read a sequence of emails that are top posted.
Like hell it is - it is just overly confusing - how many times have you
seen a message that is, in its entirety, something like "yes, I think
that is corre
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 16:28 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Nothing to do w/ corporate email or BB's. It's much easier to reply &
> > it's much easier to read a sequence of emails that are top posted.
Bull $#^*&@^#, top-post messages are harder to read. One has to
remember that message are not alw
> > > I hope I am complying this time - am really unfamiliar with lists.
> >
> > That's awesome. You quoted an entire digest message to reply to a
> > thread about why digest messages are obsolete and evil and how we
> > can prevent users from directly replying to them.
> >
> > I hope you're see
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:15 +1000, Nick Jenkins wrote:
> [...]
> The software also makes is hard to
> do the right thing if you are reading digests (requiring people to start
> a new message, not a reply, and make sure it's in text format not HTML,
> and manually copy the subject header, and manua
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 07:17 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:15 +1000, Nick Jenkins wrote:
> > [...]
> > The software also makes is hard to
> > do the right thing if you are reading digests (requiring people to start
> > a new message, not a reply, and make sure it's in
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