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Todd Lehman wrote:
>
> All right then, let's back up a bit. You said earlier that the "live feed
> [of lugnet.cad.dev] [was] driving [you] nuts." What exactly drives you
> nuts? It the fact that mail messages arrive to your inbox at random times
> of the day (producing an audible noise or flagging you to read something)?
> Or is it the fact that the messages come as separate messages instead of a
> single message?
Mainly that I all of a sudden got flooded with ANOTHER pile of Emails when
this was started up. I don't mind the CONTENT, but I prefer it in Digest
form. I get anything I can in Digest form, unless it is something that I
NEED realtime.
> How acceptable would it be to you if the messages still came separately to
> you, but were only sent out to you once a day -- in batches?
That MIGHT be OK, but in a heavy traffic newsgroup, it won't help.
Communicator slows WAY down once you get over 1k messages in a folder, no
matter the size of the messages, and Digests take a lot longer to break 1k
than individual posts ;-)
> Another question. If actual digests happen, I would probably set the
> outgoing headers like this:
>
> From: news@lugnet.com (LUGNET Server)
> Sender: news-gateway@lugnet.com
> Errors-To: news-errors@lugnet.com
> To: digest=lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com
> Bcc: [addressee-list]
> Subject: lugnet.cad.dev Digest 19990210 (10 Feb 1999)
> Precedence: list
>
> By design, this prevents anyone from replying to the digest message and
> directing it back to the group. (Unless they tweak the 'To' header on their
> reply.)
>
> The incoming mail gateway could also be told to reject any message with a
> subject line looking like it originated from a digest message.
>
> So this is pretty slick for reading, especially if it's sent as a MIME
> message. But how would people reply to messages? Well, I can only think of
> one good way: Direct them to the web page. And this could be accomplished
> very easily by including a line like
>
> X-Message-Archive: http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad.dev:93
>
> in the header of each message in the digest. If the digests are sent as
> plain text, then the URL will be clickable; if the digests are sent as MIME
> messages, then the URL will probably be hidden since X-Message-Archive is a
> nonstandard header. But the URL could also be placed below the message
> header and before the body of the message.
>
> Anyway.
>
> How close would that get you to where you want to be? It probably would be
> pretty easy to whip together.
Gotta be a Digest. Seriously. I only news-mail feed very low traffic
groups. Like I said, I already get 1-300+ emails a day at home, and
3-900/day at work, I need to minimize growth, or the Delete key will be the
first to wear out on my keyboards.
Thanks for looking into this.
--
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| (...) You may want to consider switching to a real e-mail client. :) Just kidding mostly, but I'm using a little shareware program called Becky! Internet Mail that seems to handle the thousands of messages I have in my LCAD folder just fine. :) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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