Re: [Evolution] evolution-list Digest, Vol 59, Issue 31

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 10:05 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > You're doing it again! Please STOP replying to digests!
>
> Why does evolution-list even provide the possibility to subscribe to a
> digest? Isn't a mailing list digest a concept that is broken by design
> and has no reason to exist in this century? Surely by now any sensible
> mail client (like Evolution) provides the means to order messages from
> a mailing list in a separate folder or whatever, neatly organised by
> thread, on the client side? What are digests needed for?
>
> I suggest we ask the gnome mailing list admins to convert all digest
> subscribers into normal subscribers, and remove the digest
> possibility. At least for the Evolution lists.
>
> The mailing list digest concept is a historical artefact from ARPANET
> days that deserves to die.

Fine by me. Everything to do with digests causes all sorts of problems.
I guess they may have had some justification in the days when most
people were on dial-up, but those days are long gone and even those who
still have to use dial-up have better options than digests.

poc