[Ironpython-users] Undesired Side Effects of sending digests to the list as emails

[Abubakar]

oh .. i was just about to say that if nothing else works then use gmail
filters to redirect it to the trash :D .. but i just noticed your email
address is of the form *mycalypso.com .. I dont know if they have such cool
filters. Always use gmail <3

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Slide <slide.o.mix at gmail.com> wrote:

> The daily digest is just the digest of the bug tracker for the day, not the
> normal messages.
> On Jul 4, 2011 9:22 AM, "David Bagby" <Dave at mvcalypso.com> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I've been reading the list for a couple of months as part of an effort
> > to learn more about Iron Python.
> >
> > I thought I'd speak up about the recent decision to start sending the
> > list daily digest to the list (as an email)....
> > I rather dislike the side effect of this and wanted to explain why...
> > turning this option on has created a recursive problem.
> >
> > If a list subscriber gets the list content as individual emails, the
> > digest is just one more email they get -
> >
> > However, if you choose to get the list email as a daily digest (as I
> > do), sending the digest as an email to the list causes the digest to be
> > inserted into the daily digest email.... and that makes for a very hard
> > to read digest.
> > It also effectively doubles content of the digest (as today's digest
> > ends up including an email from yesterday which is all of the prior
> > day's digest). This is ugly enough when you get daily digests, I hate
> > to think about what this would look like if one opted for weekly digests
> > instead of daily (I don't remember if this list offers weekly digests,
> > some other lists I subscribe to do).
> >
> > When someone then replies to an email and does not trim the quoted
> > reply... well, at that point the you have a pretty massive amount of
> > text within which it is darn near impossible to find the "new" content.
> >
> > Now think about trying to read that on a typical mobile device (as I
> > often do on my android phone)..... one ends up having to scroll thru
> > pages and pages of useless text.
> >
> > The net effect for me is that this recent change to the list has made
> > reading the list painful enough that I've found myself just deleting the
> > list emails instead of reading them. :-(
> >
> > So, just in case anyone is counting raised hands, mine is up for "please
> > turn this digest is sent to the list option back off".
> >
> > Dave
> >
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