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............ > > ************************************************************* > > To unsubscribe or set your subscription options, please go to > http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=l-forwardlook&A=1 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 ************************************************************* To unsubscribe or set your subscription options, please go to http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=l-forwardlook&A=1
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