Topband: PLease!

[Phil Lefever]

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 at 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 at 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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