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I just checked the subscriber list, and 20% of the addresses subscribed to the BLU discuss list are set to digest mode. This seems to indicate a significant population that finds value in list digests. Why do these people prefer digests? I don't know. I could speculate, but that wouldn't prove anything. However, i don't see any reason why these people should have to justify their preference. Why do we provide a digest version of the list? It comes that way by default in Mailman, and turning it off would take an extra effort that wouldn't gain us anything. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:19:20PM -0400, eric chadbourne wrote: >> > General question: why does anyone use digests these days? >> > >> > Threaded mail readers provide a better sense of what's going on. >> > Filtering to a separate folder provides better separation. >> > >> > -dsr- >> >> >> i actually get both to two different accounts. > > So... why? What's the attraction of digest? > > > -dsr- > > -- > http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. > > You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr-iMZfmuK6BGBxLiRVyXs8+g at public.gmane.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99
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