[HECnet] digest mode

Once upon a time, Peter Coghlan allegedly said Do people really want digest mode here? Yes (for me, at least - I always have!). And an archive of past messages would be really nice... I've never see the attraction of digest mode. People who are not on digest reply to topics of interest immediately. People on digest reply hours or days later when everyone else has lost interest. Sometimes they end up replying with the subject of the digest instead of the subject of the posting they are replying to. Topics become very disjointed. I just shove hecnet mails in a VMS MAIL folder as they arrive and I have an instant message archive. This works ok provided there isn't too much off-topic stuff so I don't have to decide what to keep and what to toss. If we could agree to keep things more on topic and to put more thought into it before banging off a quick message to the list, I wonder would that reduce the need for a digest mode? No. And it's far easier to implement digest than get users to behave. Digest is less desirable if you are active on the list and can do it often. When there are high volumes of traffic you only want to read, digest becomes more desirable. You can still get individual msgs if you want them. Why take the option away from someone else? Phil -- "There is some truth in your fiction, and some fiction in your truth." -- Animatrix