[Mailman-Developers] Re: MIME "digests" vs. real Digests

[Tom Neff]

Generating proper 1153 Digests is very important.  MIME "Digests" are not 
true digests in the original sense of providing a readable daily omnibus of 
list traffic, they are a hack concocted by people who were thrilled with 
MIME and thought digests were just another way of concatenating messages 
and files.  They don't save much space and they don't provide the same 
service; most modern mailers capable of "dealing" with them are equally 
capable of routing individual messages to folders based on headers, which 
is arguably the better solution for people who don't care about bandwidth 
or disk space to begin with.