On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 01:08 PM, Donald MacDonald wrote:
We offer a digest mode. It seems to me to be a courtesy to post in Plain
Text and to quote only relevant parts of the mail we are replying to.
IMHO.
None of this is very hard.
Judging from the efforts some people have to go through to post without
html, It's not necessarily easy. Cleaning extraneous parts of the reply
is good manners, even if it does take a little thought and time.
Winsor Crosby wrote:
There are always another side. When a digest is offered as a courtesy
to people who really think it might be better, it is probably not nice
for them to continually complain about it. I have never graduated to
broadband and have used both digest and normal forms of this list with a
dial up connection. I can not imagine why anyone would use the digest
unless they just can not be bothered to make the settings in their email
client and would prefer others to optimize their viewing experience for
them. Then I wonder why they advertise the fact.
The main time I use the digest is when I'll be on vacation for an
extended period, and not able download all the messages over broadband
every day. They get scanned later, when I have time. But because of all
the "fluff" and junk, I don't do much more than skim them.
Thanks, Steve Goss, Dallas Tx usa
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