>I'd just like to second Carl's sentiments. IMHO the FVWM digest was ideal for
>keeping upto date on what was happening with FVWM without the hassle of
>constant e-mails throughout the day. I too must confess I've never seen
>anyone quote an entire digest to a list.
I have to say at this point that I was subscribed to a couple of the
linux mailing lists, which used to be strictly in digest form, and I
regularly found that more than half the topics under discussion were
something like "Re: linux-kernel-digest may 26", which is completely
useless if you are scanning headers for keywords.
It may be that most people who use digests intentionally know what they
are doing, and are capable of editing their Subject line, but I
certainly got sick of them from my experience.
As far as the problem of mailing lists causing floods of strange mail
throughout the day that one must wade through to find the email from the
boss about the meeting he wants to have this afternoon, I just use
procmail to filter everything, and all the heavy-traffic lists go to
pseudo news groups, that I read later.
>Many thanks for going to the trouble at all though.
I'll certainly second that. :-)
tw
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Received on Tue Sep 19 1995 - 09:03:28 BST