test Digest, Vol 80, Issue 85

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 19:26 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > PS The guidelines don't go far enough. Replying to a digest even if
> > you change the Subject line is still going to annoy a lot of people
> > because it breaks list threading. Digests are an obsolete artefact
> > that really only works for people who just read list traffic and
> > never reply.
> 
> I don't think this is true -- at least not for if you use the
> mime-style digest.  It's trivial in most clients to reply to
> individual messages from the mime-style digest and have proper
> threading, subject, etc.

I wasn't aware of that. I think the last time I received a digest must
be over 10 years ago. Does "most clients" include Evolution, Thunderbird
and Kmail (which I'm guessing are probably the top three on these
lists)?

> (We changed the users list to default to mime-style digests a few
> months back.  We haven't had any complaints yet and I think that the
> amount of replies to the standard digest have gone down.  We also
> filter those, so they get flagged for moderator approval, which lets
> us tell the poster not to reply to digests and saves long threads on
> the merits of digests and etiquette. ;)

So why not change the Test list as well?

poc