In the 90's with a dial up connection a digest made some sense. Today we have
lots of bandwidth and most any email program lets you set up easy filters to
sort messages into orderly folders. Single messages make for easily followed
threads without the jumble. Easier for both the individual user as well as the
community at large.
This is a problem with email lists that other sorts of online forums don't deal
with. Any email list I run I always disable the digest option if possible.
73
Phil, KBØNES
On Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 03:52:55 PM CST, William Cromwell
<wrcromwell@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
This is a longstanding, universal problem with mail lists and the usenet
lists before. We are preaching to the wall here. I just delete such
messages understanding that I could be missing something good. But it
really is useless under the described conditions. -shrug-
73,
Bill KU8H
bark less - wag more
On 2/1/22 3:10 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> Amen, Mel. My favorites (ha) are the people who don't include *any*
> context in their replies.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 2/1/2022 2:05 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
>> Thank you, Mel. This needed to be said. :-)
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 1:00 PM MEL CRICHTON<kj9c@arrl.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Folks... when you reply to a post PLEASE do not include the entire
>>> digest in your reply.... just the message, or even better just the line
>>> or paragraph, that you are responding to. I could not find the new
>>> stuff
>>> inside all the old attachments in the last digest.
>>>
>>> Sorry to be a griper.... Not my usual cheery self today
>>>
>>> Mel KJ9C
>>>
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