> Most lists to which I subscribe issue a "daily digest" with one email >per day.? >Lately, the CAUT list sends dozens of "digests" per day.? This day is >not yet over, and I've received 16.? >Is it supposed to work that way?? >Greg Graham I suspect that the "digest" setting on the listserve puts out a digest every time the total messages in the queue reach a certain number of kilobytes. If people keep hitting the "reply" button and reposting everything that has been sent before over-and-over again, without deleting anything (especially digest subscribers) then the target is reached sooner - and so you get a digest every 45 minutes. It is up to us to delete everything that is not relevant to the reply before sending a reply to the list. Lately I have been seeing entire digest being posted in reply to single messages - graphics files and all. This is why a digest is being generated every 2-3 messages - most of the crap that's being sent back with replies that shouldn't be there is triggering those digests. None of this affects people who elect to receive single messages - so, relax, whoever it is that wants answers "right away". Just stick with the individual messages option, and whatever is done with digests will not affect you. So, if we don't want 16 digests per day, we start being careful about deleting all extraneous junk from our replies... Israel Stein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110216/9545d458/attachment.htm>
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