[Sigia-l] [ADMIN] Trim your posts

[Benjamin Kahn]

Sorry I can't resist:

	It seems like the digested mail should be presented in a better format
to make this easier.  (Yes, I know mailman is an open source product
that serves thousands of lists.)  Here are some ideas for how digest
could be made better:

      * Each individual message could be sent as an MIME attachment. 
        This would allow the user's email client to treat the digested
        message better.  (My email client lists all the attachments
        together and I can expand them one at a time inline with the
        rest of the message.  I've used other email clients that allow
        users to view a message with lots of message attachments as
        virtual folders.)
      * The digest could be sent as HTML with anchors at the beginning
        of each message.  At the top, TOC links could scroll you to each
        message.  Additionally, after each message there could be a
        "Back to TOC" link.  I could even imagine a link at the
        beginning of each included message allowing the reader to skip
        to the next message.
      * The digest could trim long messages.  If a message is over a
        certain size -- say 4k, it could put the URL to the archived
        message so the reader can continue reading.

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 13:49, Richard Hill wrote:
> Close to 50% of the subscribers to this list subscribe to the digest
> version.  Several have complained that they are deleting the digest of
> messages because of all the scrolling necessary.  Individual posts are
> excessively long.  
> 
> Please TRIM your posts as much as possible.
> 
> The mail list software does have a feature that allows setting the maximum
> length of a post in Kb.  If necessary, we will have to look at implementing
> that feature.
> 
> Dick
> 
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