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[Timwi]

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