"James Mills" <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote
I'm actually really surprised anyone actually uses and subscribes to
mailing lists and wants to get digests. It's far easier (for me at
least)
to just get each email as it comes in.
I use digests for several mailing lists - and used to use it on the
tutorlist
untilGMane made it available as a news feed which is better still.
The advantage of a digest is that I can read it all in one go rather
than
having to search for the mails intermingled with all the other stuff
that
comes in (around 200 mails per day of which list mail is low in
priority)
If there are 50 messages a day from tutor - which can happen - then
that would push my inbox load up to 250/day but using a digest
means it is only 201 - far easier to scan and search.
I could do the same by setting up a rule to auto file it in a folder
but
the digest effectively does that for me and I'm lazy by nature :-)
So digest is good, but posting the whole digest is bad!
My personal view.
Alan G.
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