>
> This new host of ours does
> not offer digest versions of lists to be created.
>
I consider the news not only distressing, but most puzzling as
well: I've been on Usenet since about '87, receiving lists in
digest form almost from the beginning. Indeed, I had thought
providers preferred the format.
>
> (1) Move us all back to fontys.nl
> (2) Forget a digest and just have a primary list for everyone
> (3) Move the entire list to a free web based service. Odds are it
> would be listbot.com .
(1) I cannot cast a vote here: the enormous task of doing this would
fall to you. I would understand were you to decide, simply, to go
with the 2nd option.
(2) I'd be most unhappy were you to make that decision and, because
of the traffic I receive daily, I would have to unsubscribe.
Digests
are somewhat easier and more efficient to handle than spates of
individual messages, it seems. In my own case, I long since found
I tended to skip over single messages from a group, intending to
go back later in the day to read them ... and seldom getting
there.
(3) The virtues and the shortcomings of various services are not
familiar to me. I'd thought, or simply assumed, that list-owners
rather than subscribers rated services. But in any case, I
cannot
remember having problems with listbot lists.
Thus, my inclination is to say, go with (1) or (3), especially (3).
Truly I am distressed you had to send out this bulletin (and not at
all because of any impact on me). I would hope everything will
fall into place, leaving this episode merely a stepping-stone to a
better situation than you could have anticipated.
Good luck!
RmC
