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

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Neil Johnson <neil.johnson97 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>On 7 Apr 2007, at 06:05, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>> Why?  because we can't have a digest?  ????  REALLY?  C'mon  
>> people.  Please please
>> please let's have a digest available for those of us that are  
>> interested and want
>> mostly to read and respond to a few. P-L-E-A-S-E ????
>
>Sorry if I'm being blond, but why not just set up a mail filter/rule  
>that moves messages with "[sdiy]" in the subject to a specific  
>folder?  Pine can do that, OSX Mail client can do that, I think  
>Outlook can do it too (but I only use it for work and don't need that  
>functionality).  Then you (a) maintain thread consistency, and (b)  
>have a MUCH better idea of how much traffic there is on a given day  
>(just count the number of new messages).  And it makes it much easier  
>to view by thread, or sender, or date, etc.

I don't use a commercial email product.  It doesn't have those features and I don't
have the time nor the inclination to write them.



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