RE: [Mailman-Users] Digest message format?
-----Original Message----- From: Ron Echeverri [mailto:rone@macromedia.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 1:50 PM To: Gregory Leblanc Cc: Mailman-Users list (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest message format?
Gregory Leblanc wrote: [redirecting this to the list, since my initial email went to Greg only] HTML digests solves that problem. Besides, how would you break the digest up into useful parts again, it's already been smeared together. I think HTML is a much better solution to this problem. I don't know python, so I'm not sure how well suited to this it would be, but it's probably less than 20 hours coding to put together an alpha quality release of HTML digests for somebody who does know it, or something similar using Perl.
This is all silly. Keep HTML on HTTP servers, and keep regular text in email. If people want to see the digest as individual messages, they should read the pipermail archives. There's no need to reinvent the wheel.
ok, how about making it possible to link the mail to the pipermail archives.
I just want a functional way to use digests so that I don't get mail from
all of these lists ever 4 minutes. I want the digest to reduce the overhead
and message counts. My proposal was one way to make them more useable, not
the only one.
ok, I need to calm down probably, but here's exactly what I want out of the
digest that I get in my mailbox. First, I want a list of the messages that
came through the list since the last digest. This let's me quickly see if
there are any that I want to read, and if not just pitch the email. Then if
there are any that I do want to read, I want a quick way to get to that
message without having to find it amidst all of the other posts that I'm not
interested in. Once I'm done reading it, I want to get rid of the whole
message, because there's an archive online. Is that too mch to ask?
Greg
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