Sol, The quest for storing good info in a way one can retrieve it is ongoing for sure.
I do what you do with a few exceptions. There are a few yahoo groups that I get digest. When I download them into thunderbird, I skim the digest. If it has info I want I immediately hit Reply and edit the message at that moment, deleting the extra context and the thank-you--etc messages that don't lend themselves to history. I change the title to something that makes sense to me, usually I add the word Edited, and put one of my other e-addys in the TO field. And I delete that original digest. It takes a minute but I find I have files on...in my case...Lipo C...that I find useful rather than all extra stuff I don't care about that's on the list. The downside for digests for me is that I don't participate in the list much. BTW I use a lot of (free) Gmail addresses for health info (and tax info--my income interest) because it stores it out there until I delete it and it's much easier to search than on the yahoogroups pages where the list posts are also stored. I know there are some downsides to google but the tradeoff for me in having a good library is worth it. This post is one I'd delete in a "reply edited digest" . Of course, that's also the case with the entire thread, lol. I'm so grateful for the silverlist archives. Thank you--Mike. Saralou On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:33 PM, sol <sol...@sweetwaterhsa.com> wrote: > I'd like to suggest that people believe digest is an easier format in > which to receive email because they don't get "so many" emails in a day. > However, it seems to me like it is much slower to review contents of a > digest than to scroll through individual emails (which have individual > subject headers, a big bonus), I can skim through dozens of emails quickly > and delete them even more quickly. In digest format, there are no subject > headers for the digest itself, just "digest and date, number or whatever". > And if a digest contained something I wanted to save, I had to save the > whole darn thing as a document then edit it, title it..........big time > consuming PITA for me. If left saved in email inbox, then I had to read > through the whole thing to find the one or two posts of interest, and as > instructions given point out, replying to an email from a digest is an even > bigger pain. Digest format is just too cumbersome IMHO. Maybe some people > have to pay for each email downloaded? That is the only reason I'd ever go > back to digest. > sol > > > Rowena wrote: > >> ........And also very important - r*emember to change the Subject Line >> to reflect what you are writing about*, and change it as the >> conversation moves on. If your subject line only says Digest No 12345 some >> people won't click on to see what it is, and might miss exactly what they >> need. >> > > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/silver-list@eskimo.com/maillist.html > > Off-Topic discussions: > <mailto:silver-off-topic-list@**eskimo.com<silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com> > > > List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com> > > >
