Re: [RML] The List

James Purchase (jpp at inforamp.net)
Fri, 17 Jan 1997 22:19:23 -0500

Roy,

> I VOTE NOT TO DIGEST! We did this vote before and the no's won. Sorry
> fellas, in digest you have to get it all. This way I can delete peters
crap
> before retrieveing it...

O.K. Mr Co-Chariman, it's your list, you do with it what you want. But the
rest of us have to wade through that crap mixed in with all of our other
e-mail. In my case, that amount to several hundred messages per day. If I
started deleting messages prior to retrieving them I might miss some very
important messages.

I am only new here, so perhaps it's not my place to comment on this, but
while I enjoy the list and find the members most helpful, there are a lot
of posts which are more personal asides to friends than meant for general
consumption. It is a waste of my time to be receiving these - they should
be posted person to person, not to the list, unless they concern the
readership in total.

I also receive the Discus-L list. The software used for that list allows
subscribers a choice, they can get the list in digest format or piece by
piece. Everyone's happy. Couldn't something similar be done here?

James Purchase
Toronto, Ontario
jpp at inforamp.net