How the **** Do I Use a Mailing List?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2022-12-22 at 19:52 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> you can still continue using digest, you only need to change the
> settings from plain text to MIME digest.
> 
> "A MIME digest has each message as an attachment inside the message,
> along with a summary table of contents", hence you can reply to the
> individual email by keeping the original subject and thread (email
> headers).
> 
> 
> See http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node28.html .
> 
> Note, I'm subscribed to a mailing list where we first made MIME the
> default for digest, since plain text digest nowadays makes no sense at
> all. It's from an ancient time, when some email programs were unable to
> handle MIME. Nowadays all email programs are able to handle MIME and the
> content of the individual MIME digest messages is still plain text, it's
> not something ugly like HTML. However, after a while we decided to drop
> digest entirely. Both were joint decisions of the majority of users, it
> was not enforced by the admins or moderators. Like the Ubuntu users
> list, the mentioned list is a mailman 2 list. But mailman 2 is another
> issue, unrelated to your request.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf

PS:

IIRC I was the one who recommended to make MIME the default for digest
and IIRC it was accepted without a veto.

IIRC after a while a moderator asked, if it's ok to drop digest and IIRC
it was also accepted without a veto.

I can't remember that anyone disliked those ideas.

IIRC both changes happened because absolutely nobody disagreed with
those "requests".