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Re: Digest mailing list

Bill K. (billy@cafe.net)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:25:20 +0000

Curt Sampson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Dave Michelson wrote:
>
> > Majordomo can produce a separate digested version of a list, as
> > described in O'Reilly's "Managing Mailing Lists," ORA, 1998,
> > pp. 159-161. I'll put that on my "to do" list.
>
> If you're switching to the one that I set up (linux@lists.portal.ca)
> I don't support digests.
>
> But much, much better, anyway, is to use procmail to sort your
> mail into separate incoming mailboxes. I have close to 30 incoming
> mailboxes (I receieve almost a thousand messages a day from various
> lists). This means you're not dependent on digests and you can do
> things like sort by subject.
>
> For this list I have a procmail rule that looks like this:
>
> :0:
> * ^(To|Cc):.*linux@ee.ubc.ca
> Mail/Inbox/misc
>
> And then in pine I have all of my incoming message folders set up:

Problem is, not everybody has access to their mail server's file system.

Why not offer the added convenience of sending as digests? This may
also solve the problem of sending replies to the individual sender or
the entire list by mistake, as others here have raised concerns about,
if only the digest is set with the list as the default reply address.

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