empty digests and option for once-a-day digest

empty digests and option for once-a-day digest

[Tim Chambers]

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Dear list owner,

I've been a subscriber for a couple weeks now. This is the second time the
digest has been empty (cf. Vol 126, Issue 24). I'd like to take this
opportunity to ask a couple questions. I'm trying to get into the swing of
things and contribute to emacs long-term. It's been years since I've been
active on a mailing list, so maybe things have changed in the meantime,
but I've never seen these two behaviors:

1. Why are empty digests sent out?
2. Why isn't there an option for a once-a-day digest?

Thanks in advance.

– tbc aka emacs-devel subscriber tbchambers@gmail.com

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Re: empty digests and option for once-a-day digest

[Stefan Monnier]

> 1. Why are empty digests sent out?
> 2. Why isn't there an option for a once-a-day digest?

Good questions.  Either it's a property of the configuration of this
particular mailing-list, or it's due to the mailing-list manager we use.


        Stefan

Re: empty digests and option for once-a-day digest

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stefan Monnier writes:
 > > 1. Why are empty digests sent out?
 > > 2. Why isn't there an option for a once-a-day digest?
 > 
 > Good questions.  Either it's a property of the configuration of this
 > particular mailing-list, or it's due to the mailing-list manager we use.

Your headers claim you're using GNU Mailman 2.1.14.  (Current is
2.1.18, but probably gu.org won't get hacked due to Mailman if you
fail to upgrade.)  AFAIK Mailman doesn't send empty digests.  It's
possible that your MUA doesn't know how to handle the digests Mailman
sends properly.

As far as the frequency of digests, that is a configuration option.

Please discuss this with the gnu.org admins (if you care that much),
and if it seems like there is a bug or otherwise undesireable behavior
in GNU Mailman itself, direct questions to mailman-users@python.org.

Steve

empty digests and option for once-a-day digest

[Tim Chambers]

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Thanks for giving me things to think about, Stephan and Steve. I'll sit
back and take it all in for now.

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empty digests and option for once-a-day digest

[Tim Chambers]

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Thanks for giving me things to think about, Stephan and Steve. I'll just
sit back and take it all in for now.

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