Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
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 don't see how that is any different from simply filtering the messages into a folder directly. It is strictly equivalent except that it doesn't incur the delay that the digest does, therefore it's strictly better :)
Timwi