Re: [Mailman-Users] multiple footers accumulating on messages as discussion progresses - how to eliminate all but the last mailman footer?
At 03:56 PM 4/19/2012, you wrote:
I would love, love, love a feature that would eliminate the trail of footers from a replied-to list message. I run about 200 lists that serve the blind community, and we tend to prefer top posting. It is easier to find the new content. So getting rid of footers in chains where people reply, and reply to that ... would be great, if possible.. It would also clean up digests some, it would also be nice if digests had some kind of navigation between original messages.
Dave
David Andrews wrote:
... it would also be nice if digests had some kind of navigation between original messages.
Have you tried the MIME format digest?
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM, David Andrews <dandrews@visi.com> wrote:
I run about 200 lists that serve the blind community, and we tend to prefer top posting.
That makes sense. T. V. Raman top-posts even on Emacs lists.
It is easier to find the new content. So getting rid of footers in chains where people reply, and reply to that ... would be great, if possible.
I would guess that blind people develop better memories, to reduce the cost of back references. If so, maybe it would be better (on balance) to not include previous messages at all (by default). Have you tried that?
it would also be nice if digests had some kind of navigation between original messages.
A decent MUA allows you to treat a digest as a folder, or as a mail spool (so that you can read messages from it into your inbox. If that would not be good enough, I wonder what you need. If it would be good enough, I think you should talk to the maintainers of your users' MUAs to make the digest-as-folder feature available and accessible. It's not hard to implement, and it would g
Oops, premature send, stupid touchpad. Continuing.
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM, David Andrews <dandrews@visi.com> wrote:
it would also be nice if digests had some kind of navigation between original messages.
A decent MUA allows you to treat a digest as a folder, or as a mail spool (so that you can read messages from it into your inbox). [...] It's not hard to implement, and it would guarantee that users can use the navigation features they're already used to.
David Andrews wrote:
... it would also be nice if digests had some kind of navigation between original messages.
Have you tried the MIME format digest?
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM, David Andrews <dandrews@visi.com> wrote:
I run about 200 lists that serve the blind community, and we tend to prefer top posting.
That makes sense. T. V. Raman top-posts even on Emacs lists.
It is easier to find the new content. So getting rid of footers in chains where people reply, and reply to that ... would be great, if possible.
I would guess that blind people develop better memories, to reduce the cost of back references. If so, maybe it would be better (on balance) to not include previous messages at all (by default). Have you tried that?
it would also be nice if digests had some kind of navigation between original messages.
A decent MUA allows you to treat a digest as a folder, or as a mail spool (so that you can read messages from it into your inbox. If that would not be good enough, I wonder what you need. If it would be good enough, I think you should talk to the maintainers of your users' MUAs to make the digest-as-folder feature available and accessible. It's not hard to implement, and it would g
Oops, premature send, stupid touchpad. Continuing.
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM, David Andrews <dandrews@visi.com> wrote:
it would also be nice if digests had some kind of navigation between original messages.
A decent MUA allows you to treat a digest as a folder, or as a mail spool (so that you can read messages from it into your inbox). [...] It's not hard to implement, and it would guarantee that users can use the navigation features they're already used to.
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