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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 06:09 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 09:54 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > If digests are kept, are other mitigations possible. Like:
> >     Is there a way to enforce mime digests?
>
> Not to my knowledge.

MIME digests are the default, but the user can turn them off. There's
no way to prevent this other than modifying the Mailman setup (or even
Mailman itself, it's not clear). Either way, it's not under our
control.

> >     And is there a way to make the boilerplate at the top of the
> > digest more "robust" on the issue of replying to a digest?
>
> Honest opinion - that simply won't work.  I wish I could return the
> youthful innocence when I believed that people bothered even a whit
> about following instructions & conventions.  Hacker courtesy and all
> that.  I do miss that Internet.

I already did that a while ago. I have no evidence that anyone even noticed.

poc