Re: [Evolution] evolution-list Digest/POC

[Brewster Gillett <bg fdi us>]

> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 10:05 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
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> > 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.

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> 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.

Brewster responds:

Okay, so how do we start the process? Maybe we can launch a trend, of 
listservs permanently turning off the damned Digest option. Whom do
we email to get going on this? Maybe we can make it happen Gnome-wide!

Brewster

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