Re: moderninzing/upgrading mail list format

Dennis Gearon, 05.07.2010 23:43:
> I belong to MANY email listservers, probably like all of us.
>
> All of them, I am on digest.
>
> The CONTENT from all of you contributors is superior, more mature,
> and more directly helpful than all the other lists. I think it has
> something to do with the conservative, structured mind set of us
> Dbase programmers. (Or at least when we discuss database issues ;-)
>
> However, I think that the mailing list world has moved beyond what we
> use, at least for those of us who receive digest mode. The google
> groups group all the same topics in one block, and uses
> intra-document html links to get to those blocks.
>
> By using the 'subjects contents' table at the top of the digest
> email, and the back button, it is VERY easy to investigate only the
> subjects one is intersted in, without having to scan through the
> whole digest. There are other, better-than-pgsql-mail-program
> convenience attributes of the google groups email system.
>

I read it through the gmane newsreader, so I get threaded display and can easily "scan" the subjects.

Regards
Thomas