Thanks Steve and Brian !
Probably, I will create a gmail account for mailing lists and let it
take care of the threading.
Regards,
Saravanan
On 07/07/2011 12:02 PM, Brian G. Peterson wrote:
On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 11:44 -0500, Saravanan wrote:
Hello,
I am passive reader of both R-devel and R-help mailing lists. I am
sending the following comments to r-devel as it seemed more suitable. I
am aware that this list uses GNU mailman for the list management. I have
my options set that it sends a email digest. One thing I find is that
the digest consists of emails that ordered temporarlly. For eg lets say
there are two threads t1 and t2 and the emails arrive as e1 of t1, e2 of
t2, e3 of t3 . The digest lists them as e1,e2 and then e3. Is it
possible to somehow configure it as T1 : e1,e3 and then T2 : e2 ?
This is the digest format that google groups uses which is incredibly
helpful as you can read all the messages in a thread. Additionally, it
also helpfully includes a header that lists all the threads in digest so
that you can jump to the one you are interested in. I checked the
mailman options but could not find any.
Does anyone else have the same issue? It is not a big issue in R-devel
but R-help is a much more high traffic mailing list. I am interested in
hearing how you read/filter your digest mails in either R-help or other
high volume mailing lists.
This really has nothing to do with R, but rather mailman.
I use folders, filtered on the server using SIEVE and/or procmail. No
digest required. I get the mails immediately, not later in the day or
the next day, and can use all my various email clients easily to
read/respond.
mailman supports a MIME digest format that includes a table of contents
with links to each MIME part. mailman does not support a threaded
digest, to the best of my knowledge.
Regards,
- Brian
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