My initial query about a Digest format was that it be an option, not as the only
form available.
Molly
Kim Cooney wrote:
> I have had experience using a digest form and found it made me lose interest
> in the group. The non digest form gives you more control eg. delete or read
> the ones with particular subject headings, read one or two and read more
> another day. When they are in a digest they are just one under the next
> including all the text from previous messages. I found it messy.
> Kim Cooney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Esteban Diaz [mailto:ediaz@csusb.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, 05 March, 2000 7:23 AM
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: digest form
>
> Other listservs do permit a member to receive all
> messages in a digest format. When I did that before,
> digest meant that all message for a given time
> period came bundled together in a huge package. It
> was very cumbersome to read, review and respond.
> I got the digest form by sending a digest command
> to the support resource for the listserv.
> I don't know whether xmca is set up that way.
> Esteban Diaz
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