On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 19:26 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> PS The guidelines don't go far enough. Replying to a digest even if
> you change the Subject line is still going to annoy a lot of people
> because it breaks list threading. Digests are an obsolete artefact
> that really only works for people who just read list traffic and
> never reply.
I don't think this is true -- at least not for if you use the
mime-style digest. It's trivial in most clients to reply to
individual messages from the mime-style digest and have proper
threading, subject, etc.
I wasn't aware of that. I think the last time I received a digest must
be over 10 years ago. Does "most clients" include Evolution, Thunderbird
and Kmail (which I'm guessing are probably the top three on these
lists)?
(We changed the users list to default to mime-style digests a few
months back. We haven't had any complaints yet and I think that the
amount of replies to the standard digest have gone down. We also
filter those, so they get flagged for moderator approval, which lets
us tell the poster not to reply to digests and saves long threads on
the merits of digests and etiquette. ;)
So why not change the Test list as well?
poc