Re: Digest Heading

[Bill Briggs <web@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I do think it's unfortunate that you are missing useful information
>for such a trivial reason... but we each have our own priorities.
>Personally, I can't *stand* digests; the individual messages are much
>better for me, as my mailer sorts them to folders very efficiently and
>shows me the exact equivalent of the digest heading... but clickable.
>You might want to look at Agent if you need a more capable mail tool:

I find that when people reply to the list from the digest, I have to open
and read the article to see what they are replying to because the subject
line doesn't indicate the thread.  So it's more work for those who might
like to read what you wrote.  And if they do put something in the subject
line, it's often not the same as was in the original so it doesn't get
picked up in the nifty procedure below.

Like Jeremy I use filters to sort everything neatly into multiple mailboxes
- without them, managing list mail from even two or three lists would be a
nightmare of confusion, not to mention enormously time consuming.

Another nice thing about the regular mail (besides the speed of arrival and
timeliness of replies) is that you can (Eudora, Mac) Option-click on the
subject line of a message and Eudora puts all of the messages together in
order of arrival and highlights them.  Hit the enter key and they all open
with the original post on top to be read first and the rest in
chronological order of arrival.  Allows you to follow threads very easily.
There is likely the same feature on Eudora for Windows, although I have not
used mine for more than three years so don't recall.

I'd agree with Jeremy that using a mail client that will sort your mail is
the easiest and most productive approach to use.  Of the 150+ so mail
messages that arrive every day, only about 10 are in my IN BOX after the
filters are done sorting and distributing it.  The 10 get read and the list
mail gets looked at depending on time and interest.  Just my 2 cents

- web



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