fedora-list Digest (really)

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Paul Howarth wrote:

> Ian Malone wrote:
>> I recently subscribed to the subversion users
>> list.  It's another (fairly) high volume list so
>> I quickly changed to the digest.  Unlike fedora-list
>> the digest comes in the form of a mail listing
>> responses under each thread with the poster and
>> number.  The mails themselves are attachments indexed
>> by the number.  I can see two main advantages over the
>> fedora-list digest format:
>> 1. It is possible to actually reply to the mail
>>    you are responding to.  This means threading
>>    isn't broken for those who use it and saves
>>    time spent on manually changing subject lines,
>>    attributions, and quotations.
>> 2. Fedora's numbered format has occasionally led me
>>    to miss threads I've been following, only to find
>>    them when I look at the archives (not often).  With
>>    this format it seems easier to identify new threads
>>    and spot ones of interest more easily.
>> 
>> They appear to be using a program called ezmlm.
>> Here's a short sample of how one of these looks:
>> Topics (messages 35321 through 35350):
>> 
>> Re: Subversion Newbie thoughts:  Database Backend, SQL, and the style?
>>     35321 by: Christopher Ness
>>     35348 by: John
>> 
>> Re: Recommendations on SVN, gForge....
>>     35322 by: Dan Snider
>>     35327 by: Dan Snider
>> 
>> Does anyone else think this format is more useful?
>> What would it take to persuade Redhat to use it instead?
>
> You can already do this. Change your list preferences to use MIME format 
> digests.

That gets the messages as attachments, but it doesn't thread them.

Threading does sound like a pretty cool feature.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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