Nut upsdev - May 2025 - Proposal to raise ML digest threshold

Hello all,

  It was brought to my attention that :

Something is not right about the digesting system for nut-upsuser.  For
example, I received 9 digests dated 15 May 2025.  The first of these had
3 messages and all the others only one each.  I would like to get one
digest per day with all of the messages for that day.  Maybe the
threshold for sending out the digest because it is "too long" has been
set to some tiny value.


Upon some review of Debian Alioth infra as a service, there seem to be
related settings in admin interface -- currently (for nut-upsuser) posting
digests as every 30KB collected, or daily if not. It is possible to change
the digest threshold, disable it (so sending only by timer I guess), and/or
to switch from daily to weekly/monthly/etc.

Maybe there are also user settings for each subscriber to tune, I did not
check yet.

Are there many digest subscribers currently active? WDYT about raising the
size threshold significantly (500K? more?) or abolishing it and just going
for one digest per day?

I guess the setting is there to make heated discussions (much traffic)
visible faster. I suppose it does not impact people receiving every message
independently.

But in practice, with driver logs etc. sometimes making way into text (and
replies), we occasionally exceed the 40Kb allotment per message so list
admins have to accept them. Or refuse, if that's spam with HTML or images
"for good measure".

Jim Klimov
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Jim Klimov via Nut-upsdev <nut-upsdev at alioth-lists.debian.net> writes:
> Are there many digest subscribers currently active? WDYT about raising the
> size threshold significantly (500K? more?) or abolishing it and just going
> for one digest per day?
>
> I guess the setting is there to make heated discussions (much traffic)
> visible faster. I suppose it does not impact people receiving every message
> independently.
Either that or avoiding really big digests.

I say set the size threshold to 5 MB and that makes it one digest per
day.


I also say, not that you asks, that digests are problematic, because
people reply and quote the entire digest.  Really you need an MUA that
splits them, and then if you have filtering into folders that's just
extra work, as the scarce resource these days is human time, not mail
delivery.  So I would be tempted to just not have digests.  Having
ranted thusly, I must admit that I don't remember seeing
quoted-whole-digests on nut lists.