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 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
