<div dir="ltr"><div>I receive the digest because I'm not normally involved in urgent or important discussions, just participating as I can contribute or need help, so take my post with the appropriate level of (un)importance.</div><div><br></div><div>Not that I'm that active on this list in particular, but I've been active in the Email space for (checks watch) {censored} too many years, and BBS before our dear Internet.</div><div><br></div><div>Digests with K-size-based limits were great when email was purely 6.5-bit ASCII. Once RTF and HTML were popular, let alone fancier CSS and inline messages, even the smallest of messages can become larger than a meagre 30K. (I call it 6.5-bit ASCII because the supported values were basically $20-$7F, since $00-$1F were "special".)</div><div><br></div><div>A 5MB-or-daily rotation makes sense, if nobody ever attaches logs or anything fancier than 6.5-bit ASCII. Once we get into 8-bit (characters in popular Latin languages), 16-bit, or even 24-bit (gotta love Unicode), and the encoding necessary for SMTP (still 6.5-bit ASCII), then you're into MIME - and possibly multi-part MIME. Once you're there, it's just an Eudoran leap to far more than 30K for many of even the simplest of NUTty messages.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM Greg Troxel via Nut-upsuser <<a href="mailto:nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net">nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Jim Klimov via Nut-upsdev <<a href="mailto:nut-upsdev@alioth-lists.debian.net" target="_blank">nut-upsdev@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> Are there many digest subscribers currently active? WDYT about raising the<br>
> size threshold significantly (500K? more?) or abolishing it and just going<br>
> for one digest per day?<br>
><br>
> I guess the setting is there to make heated discussions (much traffic)<br>
> visible faster. I suppose it does not impact people receiving every message<br>
> independently.<br>
<br>
Either that or avoiding really big digests.<br>
<br>
I say set the size threshold to 5 MB and that makes it one digest per<br>
day.<br>
<br>
<br>
I also say, not that you asks, that digests are problematic, because<br>
people reply and quote the entire digest. Really you need an MUA that<br>
splits them, and then if you have filtering into folders that's just<br>
extra work, as the scarce resource these days is human time, not mail<br>
delivery. So I would be tempted to just not have digests. Having<br>
ranted thusly, I must admit that I don't remember seeing<br>
quoted-whole-digests on nut lists.<br>
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