Lindsay - I fully understand your concerns; however, it is not an option which creates huge problems on our list to date.
It is recommended, of course, for those responding to a "Digest" message to remove extraneous parts of the email. Thanks for sharing your concerns AND for your support Jim Jim McKane Kitchener, Ontario On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 8:55 AM Lindsay Graham via CoTyroneList < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, Jim, there is a Digest option -- as there is with most mailing lists. > > However, that option does have a serious drawback. One of the big > advantages of participation in email lists is the way in which the > contributions of different people on the same subject are threaded in a > conversation, thus making it easy to follow the discussion and understand > the successive contributions and how they relate to each other. This > threading relies on each email being sent as a reply to an earlier email in > the same conversation. The threading uses the headers of the emails to > recognise that they are in the same conversation. > > It is not possible for the reader of a digest email to reply to one of the > topics included in the digest email and for that reply to be included in > the conversation on that specific subject. It is not enough to simply use > the same subject heading because, as mentioned above, the system uses the > headers of the emails rather than the subject or title. > > If I were the owner/moderator of an email list, I'd be very tempted to not > make the digest option available at all. But that's a personal opinion, > and you'll probably all be glad that my rant is now over <g>. > > Lindsay Graham > Canberra, Australia > > > On 3/7/23 21:58, James McKane via CoTyroneList wrote: > > Just to be sure everyone is aware of the "Digest" option. With the Digest > option, instead of receiving one email for every posting, you would only > receive ONE email per day which would include all postings for that 24 hour > period. > > If you wish the Digest option, please drop me a note! > > Thanks for your support > Jim > > Jim McKane > Kitchener, Ontario > > > ================================= > Send a Message to the List - [email protected] > List Archive - > https://list.cotyroneireland.com/empathy/list/cotyronelist.list.cotyroneireland.com > Join the list by sending an email to - > [email protected] > To receive the Digest version, send an email to - > [email protected] > Unsubscribe by sending an email to - > [email protected] > =================================
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