Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:32:36 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Sean Harding <sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Complete FreeBSD", first edition: errata and addenda Message-ID: <199806091032.LAA28003@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <42782202@toto.iv>
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Sean Harding said: >On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Mike Jenkins wrote: > >> Consider the freebsd-questions-digest mailing list which bundles >> multiple mail messages into a single mail digest. Having large > >Seems like taking questions in digest form is kind of >counter-productive...Makes it really hard to answer individual questions >without deleting a bunch of other junk and changing the subject line. Eh? The digest expands out into a bunch of individual messages, just as if they'd been delivered individually. My only gripe is that majordomo loses the original Message-ID: and To: headers so threading/replying never quite work properly. >I never really understood the point of digests anyway. With procmail, it >can all be funneled away to a place where it will wait for you to look at >it anyway. And that makes it easier to scan subject lines and decide what >to read. It's quicker (and cheaper) to download one honking great message than 100 little ones, for those of us stuck on the end of expensive dialups. I only dial in once or twice a day; procmail splits up the digests when they arrive on the FreeBSD box. Just my 2 cents worth.... Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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