digest form??

[Gil Brodsky]

Actually, I agree with Jim's suggestion.
  For years I have been using the digest form, but I often didn't get around to reading the msgs for a few days, and I already had set up a filter to send these msgs into a "panorama" mail box. When I started getting these messages indivisually the past couple of days, I realized that the new server had reset my preferences, and I intended to go immediately and change my subsciption to Digest form. Then I had second thoughts.
  With digest form, it can be very tricky to track a thread in a message, or across messages for more than one day, especially on a busy board like this one, and especially when people include the prior messages in the thread in their post, including entire digests, so it becomes nearly impossible to tell where one post ends and the next one begins.
  With individual messages, if I wasn't interested in the index post with subject "ARRAYFILTER( not working", then I can also just pass over any subsequent message with subject "re:ARRAYFILTER( not working".
  Also, I save occasional message that contain information I might want to refer back to later, and with individual posts I can save just what I'm interested in, rather than also all the other posts in the same digest.
  I would suggest that people try individual messages for a few days and see if they can adjust and may not like it better, before they switch back to digest format.
  --Gil Brodsky
   
  
James Rea <jim at provue.com> wrote:
  > Is there any way to go back to a digest form? I hate these individual 
> emails as it clutters up an already over cluttered inbox.

Yes, there is.

But before explaining that, let me make a suggestion. What I (and many
others do) is subscribe to the regular list (individual posts rather
than daily digests), but keep a separate folder in my e-mail program for
qna messages. I set up an automatic filter that immediately routes qna
messages into that folder, so they never even appear in my in box at
all. This is easy to do with almost all modern e-mail clients, including
Apple Mail. This means if you ask a question you'll can get an answer
the same day instead of having to wait until tommorow, but your in-box
remains uncluttered (well, at least it won't be cluttered with QNA
messages!).

Ok, back to your question. The first e-mail you got from the new qna
server should have contained your password and a url something like
this.



If you go to this url you can enter your password and then customize
your subscription, including choosing to receive digests instead of
individual posts. You can change this at any time.

Jim Rea
President, ProVUE Development

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