[Nut-upsdev] Proposal to raise ML digest threshold

[Greg Troxel]

Jim Klimov via Nut-upsdev <nut-upsdev at alioth-lists.debian.net> writes:

> Are there many digest subscribers currently active? WDYT about raising the
> size threshold significantly (500K? more?) or abolishing it and just going
> for one digest per day?
>
> I guess the setting is there to make heated discussions (much traffic)
> visible faster. I suppose it does not impact people receiving every message
> independently.

Either that or avoiding really big digests.

I say set the size threshold to 5 MB and that makes it one digest per
day.


I also say, not that you asks, that digests are problematic, because
people reply and quote the entire digest.  Really you need an MUA that
splits them, and then if you have filtering into folders that's just
extra work, as the scarce resource these days is human time, not mail
delivery.  So I would be tempted to just not have digests.  Having
ranted thusly, I must admit that I don't remember seeing
quoted-whole-digests on nut lists.