[Air-L] digest it! not FB it!

[Elijah Wright]

It's been years, but -- we used to have tools (metamail?) to split
digest mail up into individual messages for perusal.

Pretty sure the variant I used to use was called metamutt - a script
that ran inside mutt and knew how to present a digest as a temp folder
with threading, et cetera, so you could cruise the digest a little
more easily.

Alas, with webmail and the like, most people's direct access to this
kind of technology has disappeared.

[You can certainly still use it - say by grabbing your mail over IMAP
and then post-processing it - but the barriers to entry are much
higher than they used to be - folks are no longer accustomed to
setting up a suite of tools to handle mail, and instead want only to
use whatever lowest-common-denominator tool is handed to them....]

--e


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Taylor-Smith, Ella
<E.Taylor-Smith at napier.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi
> while we're discussing this,
> it would make it easier to follow threads on digest mode if people who are replying deleted the message(s) they are replying to,