Digest, e-mail, or web site?

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I highly recommend reading messages by going to the group's home

page, where they are all neatly organized and very easy to read or

skip. I've tried both e-mail and digest methods of group

participation, and will never go back to either.

Sierra

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> Concerning Message 3 from the latest digest.

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> Message: 3

> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:20:38 -0800 (PST)

> From: Jack McGuire <jackmcguire_2000@y...>

> Subject: Using this list for RA information is getting tedious

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> Before anyone jumps on Jack, on the list or privately or anyone

gets their feelings hurt. I too receive the list in digest form and

can relate to most of what he wrote. I mostly lurk on the list, but

try to read the start of threads from the digests to see if there is

anything I can benefit from. I enjoy the personal notes as someone

who does not have a lot of family, it gives me a RA family to

eavesdrop on.

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> That said, sometimes I get 60K worth of email in the form of a

digest from this group that contains over 90% of undeleted email from

previous replies to the original post. For those of us with dial-up

or cell phone internet, it takes a long time to download. It is also

really hard to find the start of the individual emails in the list of

emails from the past couple of days or more. For those of you how do

not know what a digest format looks like, I would be more than happy

to post one to the list. Jack is expressing the same frustration I

have with the clutter on the digests, and not just this group. I

have been on other lists where the list moderator steps in to kindly

help list members learn to trim their posts, this is a positive

thing. Kind of like learning not to use all Capitol letters, because

that's shouting.

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> I really really like this list, please delete the old emails from

your posts. Thanks

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