READ ME: When replying to users digest...

[Phil Dobbin]

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Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
Date:
21/03/2012 00:24
To:
Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>

> On 21Mar2012 00:49, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
| Well from my experience when I subscribed to this list as new user, I
| started with the digest (with gmail) intending to only passively read
| rather than respond. But when I felt I had responses to contribute, I
| switched from a digest to regular emails.

> I find digests difficult to read. (RISKS aside, I guess). With
> regular email the threads are nicely grouped on my screen, the
> whole thread history is there for perusal or discarding, etc. With
> a digest I get ungrouped snapshots of everything. Like a newspaper,
> in fact:-(

As someone who at present reads this list on digest (as you can
probably tell by my cut & paste job in attempt to make it more
legible), I use use digest-mode for several lists to control the
number of messages each day (I'm subscribed to about thirty mailing
lists out of necessity).

Digest mode is perfectly acceptable for use when searching for
relevant topics but a bore when replying. Mailing list software varies
in its capabilities on the response side of things so I always use cut
& paste. Believe me, the version of the response I see on the digest
is far worse than someone who is subscribed for regular delivery ;-)

Cheers,

  Phil...

- -- 
But masters, remember that I am an ass.
Though it be not written down,
yet forget not that I am an ass.

	Wm. Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing


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