David G. Miller wrote on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:39:50 -0600: > What is happening is I get the CentOS mailing list in digest form. Ah, that explains it. Other people usually just reply to the digest (which then creates a new thread with "Digest" in the subject) or add a note that they replied to a digest. > Giving up > getting the list traffic in digest form is not acceptable. I'm trying to understand what you mean by this statement. I've never used digests and I've never understood why one would want to use them. I imagine it may have been helpful in the past to cut down on the byte flow, so that one didn't exceed the monthly traffic allowance or so. But nowadays? Maybe if you are receiving mail on a mobile device and still pay by the byte. Then I read Robert's reply "I avoid the problem" (which problem? I thought) and "the only time a message shows up in my email inbox". I'm coming to the conclusion that you are simply not utilizing the assets of your mail program very well? All modern mail programs allow you to create your own folder structure and create "rules" that filter the in- and out-going mail to a folder of your choice. You do not have to have one "inbox" at all. I filter all incoming mail to the folder it belongs to. There is a "general" folder that gets everything that falls thru - which is rare. I have my own folder substructure for mailing lists. All mail from or to the centos-users mailing list goes to a folder named "CentOS" in this structure, where I also have "CentOS-Announce", "CentOS-Virt" and, for instance, "Dovecot" or "Xen". When I have some time I open the folder and look thru the mails, if I don't have time I don't. At times I didn't look in it for months. I don't even recognize that mail is coming in until I want to see it. I surely wouldn't want to mix these mails with my private or business mail (which is also organized in dozens of folders). And I surely don't want to skim a long digest for the very few postings that are of interest to me. The advantage of getting mail in single mail format is that you can easily set flags for deletion or ignoring or keeping (!) and that you can distinguish by the subject if you are interested in it or not. Reading thru the whole digest for interesting content occurs like a big waste of time to me. Anyway, do as you like, but it might be helpful, if you somehow indicate you reply to a digest. Then one doesn't have to guess why you reply to the wrong message. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com