OSNews

I'd definitely prefer a weekly format.

I wouldn't mind the 1.5 MB. It is only one week after all.

I would prefer the weekly e-mail - with headlines, catch-lines, and a direct link to the article. I don't think a text e-mail will be very big. I just copied the last seven days' worth of headlines and catch-lines into a text editor, and it was only 20KB - with links and some frilly additions and any encodings, that should only come out to 50KB at the most. Plus, it's the same, or even less load than sending seven daily e-mails (you could schedule the weekly e-mails to send out on different days to share the load out across the week). If you are really worried out bandwidth, headlines-only would work I guess, but might cause additional load on the servers because of users having less information for people to decide which articles they are interested in.

Titles and a direct link to each story would work for me.

I think the top 10 highest rated news Headlnes.


For example..

Dear aaronb

Here is this weeks most recommended osnews

Announcing... the OSNews Digest - Rating 8.67/10 - 1,000,000 votes
Have you ever gone on vacation and missed a day's news? Ever have a busy day and need to quickly catch up on what you missed? Well, your problems are solved with the new OSNews Digest. Read on for details.
Read more here http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11186

OSDL Boss Hints At Microsoft Collaboration - Rating {I cannot rate this item} - 0 Votes
The head of Open Source Development Labs, Stuart Cohen, has added weight to rumours of greater collaboration between Microsoft and the open source community. He said: "I would not be surprised to see them participate in software that runs on top of Linux in the future."

Read more here http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11185

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I like the idea of top 10 rated stories for the week, with a short synopsis and associated links for each headline.

Hi there

Please could you post a link to the HTML version. It world be realy good if it kept the feel as the site. For example the light lime green and ligh gray brown colours.

In the text version it noticed that it gave a slot for adds. Please, please do not link pictures off the net in the HTML email. Instead use text like google adds that blend in.

Most if not all pictures in spam can not be read at all as the get blocked by Kmail, Outlook and evolution.

Thanks

aaronb

How can I read this thread nested [...] I hate threaded view.

Well, genius, you're not reading it threaded. You're reading it flat. We'll look to implement some form of threading in a future version.

I apologize, I as you can see am not a very frequent visitor of osnews. But now and then I do visit this site.

I just hated to have lost the flat view to get a threaded view. Personally I'm a nested view guy myself. But flat is good enough on a site like osnews. I see now that the default is flat (yippee)

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How about some real forum software for the osnews forums?! Untill now I always avoided osnews forums in favour of: http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/index.php?board=1

Because I just hate the primitive look and feel of osnews forums, how intelligent the conversations may have been or are.

Maybe in the Preferences it will be possible to pick Text or HTML.

A daily digest is too much for me it is almost like spam but a weekly digest is cool.

No, no HTML right now. I would love to do it, but for now, it's text only.

At some point, it's pretty likely we'll introduce an HTML version though.

Right now, this is not possible and isn't one of the goals. But it's an interesting thought - notifcation when something is posted in a chosen topic.