[hpsdr] email server question

[Erik Anderson]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Brian Lloyd <brian at lloyd.com> wrote:

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>  And I would hope that there isn't a digest mode because:
>
>    1. No one ever bothers to change the subject line and every reply just
>    says, "Digest". You have no idea what the reply pertains to.
>    2. Hardly anyone bothers to trim off all the extraneous messages so
>    you can't even begin to follow the thread of what the poster is replying
>    to. You just get a giant jumble-gram of a reply.
>
> It is quite easy to have your mail user agent filter your messages so that
> those from the HPSDR list go into their own mailbox thus making a digest
> unnecessary. You can reply to an individual message without having all the
> other unrelated messages pulled into your reply. You can also look at just
> the messages you are interested in without having to read the rest.
>
> For example, I don't have an HPSDR so the postings for the Munin board
> don't apply to me. I can easily skip them and go to the messages that are
> pertinent. You can't do that with a digest.
>
> So, I would hope that people who would like the digest form will take a
> bit of time to learn how to use their MUAs effectively to accomplish more
> than the digest mode would.
>
>
If it helps to alleviate your concern, I believe the email list is already
setup to prevent #2 from happening because of its maximum-accepted-email
requirements.  They can still choose a bad subject line, but they can't
reply to a 15kb text blob without editing it first.
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