[Mailman-Users] Redundant headers in digests

[Bob Weissman]

At 11:56 AM 5/29/02, J C Lawrence wrote:
>On Wed, 29 May 2002 08:01:56 -0700 
>Bob Weissman <rlw at rlw.best.vwh.net> wrote:
>
>> I subscribe to the "SA Talk" list for SpamAssassin discussions in
>> digest mode. When I receive a digest, it shows all the headers in
>> every digested message. So I get loads of List-*, Resent-*,
>> Content-Type, etc., etc. headers in each and every digested message.
>> IMHO, Mailman should remove these from outgoing digests. Any takers?
>
>A MIME digest should contain unedited versions of the constituent
>messages.  Why?  That way it can be burst back into the discrete
>messages just as if the subscriber had received them that way in the
>first place (and is the way digests are and were intended to be used).

Thanks for the explanation. I guess Eudora isn't handling these properly, then. I'll switch to a text digest.

- Bob