I have been using "Digest" format for over a year and greatly prefer it. All the subjects are together in one place and I can read the answers immediately after the questions. It helps to be able to read all my forwardlook mail at once too with a little time I set aside. It is a little less "conversational" than getting FL mails all day long, but is a big time and space saver. I wouldn't subscribe any other way. Wayne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Stragand" <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 7:39 PM Subject: Setting your ForwardLook Subscription Options Hi All, I've gotten a lot of requests recently about how to set your mail to "Digest". Our daily mail volume through the list has jumped a bit recently, and it's a bit much for some folks. Fortunately, you don't have to leave the list because of this. If you find yourself facing too much Forward Look mail, you can turn on 'digest mode' for your subscription. This will give you one email a day (a 'digest') that contains all of the list mail for the day. I use this option on several mailing lists I'm on personally, and find it to be a nice convenient way of handling the extra mail. You can follow the directions below to set it yourself, or simply drop me a line and I'll set it to digest for you. -Dave How To Set Your Subscription Options: ********************************* Simply send a message to LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (not to the list!) with the command SET L-ForwardLook [option1] [option2] [option3] in the body of the message. Don't send it to the mailing list -- send it to LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Here's the options that may be set: 1) MAIL/NOMAIL Setting this option to Mail indicates that you will receive mail from the list. The format of the messages received is controlled by the DIGEST/NODIGEST options (see below). NOMAIL: disable mail delivery. MAIL: restore mail delivery, without altering the digest delivery setting example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK MAIL example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK NOMAIL 2) DIGEST/NODIGEST Causes the subscriber to receive one posting per digest cycle (typically daily) rather than individual messages as they are processed by LISTSERV. The MAIL/NOMAIL option controls whether messages should be delivered. Thus, switching to NOMAIL and back to MAIL does not destroy the digest/normal delivery setting; it simply determines whether or not LISTSERV should send any list mail to you. To provide as much compatibility with older syntax as possible, the four options operate as follows: DIGEST: enable digest delivery mode, enable mail delivery. NODIGEST: disable digest delivery mode, enable mail delivery as they are sent to the list example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK DIGEST example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK NODIGEST 3) HTML This option when used with the DIGEST option will give you a really nice HTML formatted "point and click" digest format that allows you to see the messages as you choose without having to keep scrolling through the messages. It only works with HTML-enhanced mail programs, such as Netscape, Outlook, Eudora (and possibly AOL). It looks great -- I really recommend it if you use the digest form. HTML: enable HTML mode NOHTML: disable HTML mode example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK HTML example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK NOHTML Reminder: Do NOT send these commands to L-ForwardLook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ... send them to LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -Dave |