The yahoo genealogy groups I belong to handle this pretty well, with the digest view as one option, individual emails as the other. Within the digest, each message has reply options that include reply to sender, reply to list, and reply via webpost. And I get one per day that I can scan (the subject lines of the posts listed at the top of the digest), instead of dozens of emails on some days that I have to delete as with the LUG list.
<>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< Peter W. Wielhouwer, Ph.D. Mattawan, Michigan, USA pwielhou...@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "William H. Boswell" <whbosw...@gmail.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 8:55:03 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events That's a good point about digest messages being hard to respond to, and sometimes they respond to the entire digest with all of the messages. Scratch that idea. Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Mike Fry Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 4:58 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events Dave Naylor wrote: > On 30 Sep 2009 Mike Fry wrote: > >> Ahem! What's the difference between reading a single digest message >> that's very long and multiple, shorter messages? > > *Every* message has to be read when it's a digest. When they're > separate messages we can decide, based on the Subject or other data, > which ones to read. Furthermore, some messages can be automatically > routed directly to the bit bucket based on their content, size, > format or writer ;-)) Another disadvantage with Digest messages. People don't know how to reply to them. So they quote the whole message in their reply and forget to change the Subject. Also, a lot of email software doesn't 'know' how to properly handle a Message Digest i.e. how to navigate through it, message by message. Good software would keep track of which 'bit' of the digest you were replying to and set up the reply accordingly (Subject and quoted matter). -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
