Tanstaafl writes:
On 2/20/2010 10:53 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
My users expect to be able to view the messages in a digest as an email folder. That's the most important digest feature for them;
I wouldn't have had a clue what you're talking about here, but maybe you're talking about the Vi-in-Emacs feature Barry mentioned?
VM. Yes. Also Gnus does this the same way. I believe pretty much all of the major Emacs MUAs do it this way.
Online manual (older version): http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/user-manual/ Current development: http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/
they do not want to have to page through messages they don't care about to get to the ones they do care about,
Nor do I, but I don't use Vi-in-Emacs, so my feature request is to allow a way for people who don't use it to be able to use digests but not have to page through messages they don't care about to get to the ones they do, and easily interact with them without breaking threading for everyone else.
How do you propose to get that effect though? HTML is not designed to make it easy!
I'd really like to know what you meant by 'view the messages in a digest in an email folder'... :)
Here's my MUA reading a digest in my main mail folder INBOX:
http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/outgoing/INBOX.png
and here's my MUA reading the messages in the digest:
http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/outgoing/AUCTeX.png
If the players didn't have numbers on their jerseys, I bet it would take you a minute to figure out Who's on First.
See above. No one would force anyone to choose this new digest version.
That's not the point. The point is that in my experience these are minimum requirements for a digest view, and I don't see how you plan to implement that in portable HTML unless you make *really* draconian restrictions on what formats people are allowed to post in.
I think you should post a bug report (weirdly enough) to the Mailman project on Launchpad.net.
Thanks, I'll do one of those tomorrow (gotta run now)...
It looks like somebody has borrowed Guido's time machine and the feature (ie, List-Post in each message in digest) is already implemented. But it's not default yet, so you could ask for that. ;-)