On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:38:58PM +0100, Timwi wrote:
John Lyden wrote:
Why, praytell, are you using digests???
Some people just don't LIKE volumes of mail being dumped in their inbox.
Am I really the only person in the whole world that uses the newsgroups?... I keep seeing this false dilemma fallacy, and nobody ever responds to it to set it straight.
Digests are the absolutely dumbest and worst imaginable way to solve the "volumes of mail" problem.
I do not agree, but you have to use the digest sensibly. I download them using fetchmail with pop3. I read mail with mutt. When I see a digest, I hit control S and the digest message is piped through a script called metamutt that opens a separate mutt temporay folder with all the messages split out from the digest. I can then skip through these, exit back the main folder and delete the digest. If I want to keep a message I just save it from the temp folder to a main folder. Download is easier and reading them is clearer. I almost always subscribe to lists via the digest mode. The only negatives is the delay in getting messages and a bug that means I have to save a message to a main folder before replying.
Brian
Timwi