As I understand it, the digest is an accumulation of approx. 22K worth of messages; the digest is sent as soon as that quota is reached. There is no seniority ;)
You have a choice, to subscribe to the reflected list, and receive the messages as they are sent (reflected), or subscribe to the digest, where you wait until the e-mail list software has collected whatever number of messages will make up the 22K worth. This e-mail list began in 1995 (I think. April? or was it 1996) and the majordomo software hasn't changed, that I'm aware of. Avital the admin. might be able to shed some light on that. I have replied-all, so that you will get my reply right away, and eventually see the same message in the digest. When a message is sent to the list, unless someone has "re lace-digest whatever" in the subject line, we can't tell if the writer is subscribed by digest or by reflected. In the long run that shouldn't matter. But then 're lace-digest' doesn't often describe the real subject, which could be quite specific, so to those answering from a digest message, please edit the subject line as appropriate. For the longest time I subscribed to the lace-digest as a way to manage the heaps of e-mail I get. I enjoyed lurking, reading what was going on, extracting any tips, and/or just enjoying the lace connection. Then when I switched mail programs to gmail, I could handle the reflected (individual) messages much better. It was rather nice to be able to connect right away with some of the correspondents. hope this helps On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:23 PM, <hottl...@neo.rr.com> wrote: > Hello Again! I just wanted to ask about the how the digest is sent & > received. I often receive a "private" response to one of my numerous > questions, well before the answer is received via the digest. Just wondered > if senior members (length of subscriber-ship) receive the digest sooner than > newbies?? <G> OR Is this an issue with my ISP--the "fine" folks at > Time/Warner aka Roadrunner, the service from H*&^%$#@@+!! The way that I > received the recent "book sale" info, the books were already sold before I > looked at the list. Technology is a wonder thing, except when it doesn't > work! Susan, in PA > > - -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
