Someone asked me:
> Gavin "been in digest mode and deleting the digests for three months" Scott
>
> How do you delete the SPAM from a digest without deleting the digest? or
> were you just kidding?

Actually I meant that I had switched to digest mode about 3 months ago
when the project I'm working on kicked into high gear, and that I had
been just deleting the digests mostly so I've been effectively offline
from HP3000-L for quite a while.

While in Digest mode I did notice a couple interesting things about it.
If you subscribe to the list now, the subscription defaults to "MIME"
mode.  Most people who have been subscribed for a long time probably
don't have this option set on their subscription because it wasn't
always the default.  Mime seems to make very little difference if you
get all the list mailings individually, but when you switch to Digest
mode it makes a big difference!  With the email client I'm using (the
OpenMail Windows GUI) the digest is displayed normally, but each
message is a separate mime part, so if I see a message I want to
respond to, I can simply double click on it and up pops that individual
message, complete with the correct From: and Subject: lines, and I can then
Reply to that individual message.  I suspect this would work similarly
in any relatively MIME-aware mail program.  This gets around one of the
major complaints against Digest mode which is that it is hard to reply
to an individual message in the digest.

So if you get HP3000-L in Digest mode, you might want to play with
turing the MIME subscription option on and off.

G.