To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:34 PM
Subject: Persuading users to stop getting 'digests'
I know that some of you disagree [in which case you can ignore this inquiry..:o)].. but I'm one of those folk who feel that digests are an obsolete leftover of the incapable/feeble email clients of the late 70s/early 80s and in this day and age [even with OE!] there's really no advantage at all to getting digests over individual messages.
I am lurking on several lists which are high traffic. I have been on Digest since January, 1998 on these lists and have had Outlook Express send all mail from them to their respective folders that I created. I have over 2 GB of mail archived in Outlook Express so this is how I know it has very high mail handling capacity.
What this constitutes is a subscriber developing his own archives. If I want to read all discussions of any particular, word, phrase or topic, I simply do a search within that list's folder in Outlook Express. There are a few subjects I do not have time to study right now or even read letters on. These self made and retained archives will come in handy one day when I do have time and the desire to do research. They are not technical subjects in the sense that most information becomes obsolete quickly such as the information on hardware, operating system and software lists. This is one of them, for example: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew This information does not become obsolete quickly like computer related information does.
Chuck
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