Re: MD: Digest mode vrs individual messages.

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Stouffs
- I don't want to get 30 different mails at once when I get home at evening, I want the few mails of my friends, 1 or 2 MD-L digests and that's it. The less separate new mails I get, the happier I am. (Even if they get in different folders) My habit. one digest is about the same as 30

Re: MD: Digest mode vrs individual messages.

2000-09-26 Thread J. Coon
Michael Stouffs wrote: Please, STOP commenting our habits, you are *offending*. You look like my 14 yr old cousin who *absolutely* has to be right and *absolutely* won't admit he's wrong/partially wrong/a tad wrong/just a little bit wrong no matter what. You have never met me, how would

Re: MD: Digest mode vrs individual messages.

2000-09-26 Thread J. van de Griek
J. Coon wrote: Michael Stouffs wrote: Please, STOP commenting our habits, you are *offending*. You look like my 14 yr old cousin who *absolutely* has to be right and *absolutely* won't admit he's wrong/partially wrong/a tad wrong/just a little bit wrong no matter what. You have

Re: MD: Digest mode vrs individual messages.

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Stouffs
Please, STOP commenting our habits, you are *offending*. You look like my 14 yr old cousin who *absolutely* has to be right and *absolutely* won't admit he's wrong/partially wrong/a tad wrong/just a little bit wrong no matter what. You have never met me, how would you know what I look

Re: MD: Digest mode vrs individual messages.

2000-09-26 Thread Dan Frakes
I'm sending a couple "technical" responses, since the topical responses seem to be irrelevant: one digest is about the same as 30 individual emails Not even close. Especially with short messages, thirty individual messages can be 20-25 times bigger in terms of message size than a single

Re: MD: Digest mode vrs individual messages.

2000-09-26 Thread J. Coon
"J. van de Griek" wrote: No, you don't stoop to personal attacks, you rather attack whole groups of people at once. Your courage is commendable. Your behavior is not, however. I attacked no one. I merrily attempted to explain the virtues of individual posts, and how to set up filters for

MD: Digest mode vrs individual messages.

2000-09-25 Thread J. Coon
Someone wrote: a lot of people get the digest because they don'tknow how to set up filters and folders. Again, It A lot of people? How do you know that? I have been on other lists and the same problem came up when the list started getting more active. - I don't want to get 30