[sdiy] Digests (was: Reply to sender not list)

[Andre Majorel]

On 2007-04-07 03:03 +0000, psychick at ptd.net wrote:
> From: Rick Jansen <rick.jansen at xs4all.nl>
> 
> > This is something we discussed years ago: if a digest is
> > available people will reply to a digest and the context of the
> > message is lost.  (Or does MailMan have a clever solution to
> > this?) So I disbled the digest indeed.
> > 
> > Note: if you do select the digest-option you will *NOT*
> > receive mail.
> 
> having only joined this list recently, i guess i don't
> understand the history but, this seems like a pretty weak reason
> for not having digests. i'm usually not a very vocal member of
> the lists i'm on but, getting 50 individual messages a day about
> why someone can't stop to pay attention to who or what they're
> replying to has been a bit frustrating. is stopping to modify
> the subject line of your message too much?

The problems caused by having 50 individual messages a day can
(and should) be solved. That's what multiple email addresses and
the filtering functions in your email client are for.

The problems caused by people who are in digest mode and post
anyway cannot be solved. They don't make the effort of using the
exact same subject. And even if they did, threading is not based
on subject, but on the Message-ID and In-Reply-To headers. Once
the Message-ID/In-Reply-To chain is broken, reconstructing a
thread becomes an AI project.

  http://shlang.com/good-email-use.html

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