fedora-list Digest (really)

[Paul Howarth]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 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.

Indeed. But can't you get all that by subscribing in non-digest mode, 
and using a mail client like thunderbird, use a mail filter to put each 
list in its own folder and view the messages in threaded mode?

So you get the benefits of threading, you don't clutter up your inbox, 
the ease of replying, and you don't have to wait for the digest to come 
in either. Seems like the best of all options to me.

Paul.