fedora-list Digest (really)
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Fri Jul 15 15:29:57 UTC 2005
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
>> I recently subscribed to the subversion users
>> list. It's another (fairly) high volume list so
>> I quickly changed to the digest. Unlike fedora-list
>> the digest comes in the form of a mail listing
>> responses under each thread with the poster and
>> number. The mails themselves are attachments indexed
>> by the number. I can see two main advantages over the
>> fedora-list digest format:
>> 1. It is possible to actually reply to the mail
>> you are responding to. This means threading
>> isn't broken for those who use it and saves
>> time spent on manually changing subject lines,
>> attributions, and quotations.
>> 2. Fedora's numbered format has occasionally led me
>> to miss threads I've been following, only to find
>> them when I look at the archives (not often). With
>> this format it seems easier to identify new threads
>> and spot ones of interest more easily.
>>
>> They appear to be using a program called ezmlm.
>> Here's a short sample of how one of these looks:
>> Topics (messages 35321 through 35350):
>>
>> Re: Subversion Newbie thoughts: Database Backend, SQL, and the style?
>> 35321 by: Christopher Ness
>> 35348 by: John
>>
>> Re: Recommendations on SVN, gForge....
>> 35322 by: Dan Snider
>> 35327 by: Dan Snider
>>
>> Does anyone else think this format is more useful?
>> What would it take to persuade Redhat to use it instead?
>
> You can already do this. Change your list preferences to use MIME format
> digests.
That gets the messages as attachments, but it doesn't thread them.
Threading does sound like a pretty cool feature.
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> Paul.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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