On 23 Apr 2002, at 7:43, KEVIN AUSTIN wrote:

> Hmmm ... me too, but I've been trying to unsub for over a week and have 
> remained remarkablt unsuccessful. (I can't get my _required_ 
> **password**, and the administrator's reply was to 'encourage me to stay 
> on the list' <sigh>.)

Well, two things:

1. the address you are subscribed under should be the one in the headers 
of the email messages you receive from the listserv.

2. mailman allows administrators to bulk subscribed/unsubscribe list 
members (I administer a couple of very low-volume mailman listservs). 
That means there should be no problem for Henry to unsubscribe you if you 
want.

> It's been a great time since 1995, but in 1995 I got about 10 - 15 emails 
> per day, I'm now up to over 100 (and some days 150 - 200), which get more 
> cluttered by 10 - 15 digests, _none_ of which I bother to try and read.

I don't like digests that much, myself, as it makes replying harder (you 
have to change the subject, you have to create your own attributions, and 
if you want to preserve threading, you have to manually change the In-
Reply-To message ID; unless, of course, you have software that can 
decompose a digest into individual messages). However, I do subscribe to 
one high-volume list that sends 3 digests a day. During the business 
week, the two daytime digests often approach 100K.

One way to manage this kind of thing is to filter the messages to their 
own folder. Another is to use a free email account for the subscription 
itself, and then retrieve that account's mail only once a day.  

Just checking the mailman administrator interface, it seems that you 
can't actually set how many digests get sent per day, but you choose the 
size threshold for sending out a digest. The default is 30KBs. That 
combined with another setting would allow you to have one per day, as the 
other setting is: Should a digest be dispatched daily when the size 
threshold isn't reached? So, if you set the digest threshold to 1000KBs 
and set the latter setting to YES, it would send out one per day.

(To Henry: this is all on the Digest-member Options screen)

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David W. Fenton                         |        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                 |        http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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