Re: [Evolution] Proposal: to eliminate the digest option for the Evolution mailing list

[George Reeke <reeke mail rockefeller edu>]

On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 18:05 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I already sent this reply to the previous thread but am repeating
> > it here for the record, with an added sentence:
> >
> > Please do not turn digests off.  Although I do not use
> > them on lists like this one, where I participate, I find them very
> > useful on other lists where I just want to keep up a bit and would
> > rather not be bothered with all the individual items coming in at
> > random intervals.  No doubt there are people who feel this way
> > about the evolution list, so my comments should apply here as well.
> > [It's not about network bandwidth, it's about inbox clutter.]
>
> So filter them into a different folder so they don't clutter your
> inbox. I am a member of numerous mailing lists - not a single one
> appears in my inbox, they all end up in their own folder. (For
> efficiency, I do it on my server, but it's no different to doing it
> within Evolution.)
>
> P.

Then I have to look in all those other folders to see if something has
arrived.  The way I do it, I just see it in my one inbox when it comes
(not often).  [I am quite familiar with this type of filtering and use
it for other purposes, but for me it is the wrong solution for lists
that I don't want to check often.]
GNR