My only nit to pick is when someone replies to a digest and sends the whole
!(^#@$ digest back through with the reply on the top. Maybe you have to
puzzle through the whole thing to figure out what it's in response to, and
it takes a bunch of time to download on my antiquated dial-up internet
service. It's not that hard to highlight the part of the message that
would be the reply-message and copy it to a new message to reply with.
That's only happened once or twice on here, and I get this list individually
so it's not a big deal. It's worse when you subscribe to a digest and get
another digest buried in the middle of it, that you already got.
I think that when your message has more than 2 old messages on the bottom as
in a reply to the reply to the initial post, it's time to start editing the
junk off of them, but for the most part I agree that you need at least the
last message to help make heads or tails of what is being replied to.
My $0.02 -
Bill K.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Jones" <hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] L-FORWARDLOOK Digest
> Once again, I use a Mac with Safari browser. My email keeps all posts
> with the same subject line together. So, by not erasing the first
> email, any later ones with the same subject line (as in Re:...) are put
> in a file together on the new email page. If there 10 replies over 2
> days, they are all kept together, shown on my screen at the time the
> latest one was posted. When I click on that email file (in date/time
> order on the screen), it expands with all the emails I haven't erased
> on that subject, one below the other. In short, I have the whole
> timeline of posts. It's the only way I can keep track of them. When the
> subject seems to be done with, I can delete the afile. If its not of
> interest to me, I delete as we go along. You may be able to set your
> browser settings that way.
>
> But if you can, leave out most of the previous replies in your reply,
> just scroll thru them on the reply page and delete anything not needed.
>
> And remember folks, a list cannot please everyone all the time, so
> delete if of no interest or enjoy all of them and the various comments.
> There may just be something of great benefit to you in some of them.
>
> regards, Ray
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Garrett wrote:
>
> > I know what Rich is saying, as I have subscribed to a couple groups in
> > Digest mode for a couple days...until I realized that I really would
> > prefer to receive individual e-mails or nothing at all (if I can
> > access the messages some other way). It can be a BIG pain scrolling
> > through messages, looking for where the next message begins and the
> > others end, especially if there is not a table of contents with all
> > the messages linked to their position in the e-mail. This is what I
> > hated the most...perhaps it was the ONLY thing I hated about digest
> > mode...but it's highly annoying............
>
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