[ATM] Replying to digest messages

[mdholm@telerama.com]

>Are you starting a new thread or replying to one of the many posts that
>happened that day?  You as a digest receiver has the additional
>responsibility of figuring out how to get the response you have done to the
>right thread in the right place as well as making a responsive reply.

One of the things I dream of is a list digest program that makes intellegent use
of HTML.  So far I have only seen what appeared to be pretty stupid use of
HTML.

Here are some useful features a list digest program could add with HTML.

1. Turn the table of contents into a set of links so you don't have to manually
scroll all the way down to a particular message of interest.

2. Make mailto links with subject automatically appended for each message
subject line.  This would deal with the issue quoted above.

3. Put next and previous links between messages to reduce the amount of
scrolling needed to get from one message to the next or previous.


This doesn't mean I think list messages, that is individual messages from list
members to the list should be in html, just that intellegent use of very basic
html in digests could make them quite a bit more user friendly.

Mark Holm
mdholm@telerama.com

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