Re: [Evolution] A digression on digests

[Bart <montana_evolution_user hardinmt us>]

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 within a digest, but quite a
> few people don't seem to realize this is possible and end up replying to
> the digest (and as often as not quoting the entire thing). This causes
> much gnashing of teeth as it loses the threading and is a waste of
> bandwidth, space, mental energy etc.. In fact some people don't even
> edit the Subject line so you have no idea what they're replying to
> without having to decipher the message.
>
> It occurs to me that a simple fix would be to automatically use the
> "reply-to-digest-component" function when the user hits one of the Reply
> options while looking at a digest. I can't think of a downside, unless
> it's to make it impossible to reply to the entire digest, which is a
> Good Thing(tm).
>
> Anyone? Should this also apply to forwarding?
>
> poc

Your suggestion, if easily implemented without a lot of code, seems the
best.  I, for one, would not miss the digest option at all.  I tried it
on another list, many years ago, and found no advantage but lots of
disadvantages.

Bart