Gregory Kirk wrote:
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> You think you're getting too much e-mail? There are methods for
> dealting with this.... a) get the lists in digest form
Actually, I find digests make the situation worse.
It makes the mail less numerous in number, but of course
the volume is the same.
The main complaint I have against the digest is that it
removes the ability to mass-delete threads. If you are subscribed
to the normal list, your mailreader sorts like messages together. If
you feel a topic is going somewhere you don't care about, you
can blow away a whole thread.
With the digest, you have to keep seeing it as you scroll.
My other complaint with the digest is that when you detect
that a post isn't something you care about, you have to scroll
over it to find the next one. I find it faster to just delete
which should reposition you at the top of the next mail.
It's only a small time savings, but it's repeated hundreds
of times a day.
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