[Leica] Re: LUG Digest, Vol 38, Issue 445

[scheng at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)]

I have agree with Brian. Get a mail program that can filter and  
thread. All modern, popular mail programs, and some pretty obscure  
ones like wanderlust, can do both.

A long time ago when I was on dial up modem and there were only a few  
digest formats, my email client would convert digests from a few well  
know sources (comp.risks for those of you who care) into separate  
messages and thread the result.

Now there is no real need for mail digests. Digests are a pain as  
people inadvertently reply to a single message  with the whole digest.

For pure text mail messages on the LUG, even a dial up modem could  
easily handle the volume.

Regards,
Spencer

On Feb 18, 2009, at 14:12, Brian Reid wrote:
> My copy of the digest is intact. Whatever clipping you are seeing  
> must be taking place inside your mail-reading program.
>
> Digests are a bad idea in general; it's a miracle that they work at  
> all. It's much better, in my opinion, to get a mail-reading program  
> that can handle threads or that can use filters.
>