Hi, I'm currently subscribed to this list, but due to my parents being divorced I am only here every other week. I use fetchmail to recieve my mail, and have a cron entry to get my mail at 10pm and 6am (it's cheaper for international traffic - my e-mail service is in the USA). I don't really want to bog down my free email service, esp. since I don't look at most of the posts that were sent while I'm away, except for replies to my posts or ones that interest me.
What I was wondering (stupid question!) is, what is a digest? I understand that it is a heap of the messages tied together, but how often is it sent? Can I set up when they are sent? Even better, is there a newsfeed I can set my system up to download the posts from, so I can either recieve all messages every night, and when I'm here recieve posts whenever I want to, or just point slrn to, so I can read them whenever I want. Note sometimes I may be away for up to two weeks, so using slrn direct to a newsfeed may not be the best if it has a message remove time of less then 14 days - I'd then use slrnpull? or a news puller to get them. Thanks for any help, Tim. --- Debian/GNU Linux... the maintainable operating system. http://www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .