John,

You might try using the moderated-digest list that is provided.  I don't
recall the details, because I don't use either of the digest lists.
 However, I believe that Bruce Toback moderates the list and produces a
"management digest" list that has all of the problems (e.g., irrelevant
emails) removed.  You receive a single message with the "pertinent" data.

Bruce, you might want to send another message out to let everyone know the
details of your list and how to sign-up.

LB

-----Original Message-----
From:   John D. Alleyn-Day [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, July 24, 1997 12:53 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Garbage on the list

David A. Lethewrote:
>We could make it a moderated list, but somebody would have to
>volunteer to do this.

Actually, what I was hoping was that the digest prorgram would be
configurable so that it would switch back to single spacing after each
message (or something along those lines).

The whole discussion on this subject has been directed towards those who
receive the list directly.  The digest is a different experience, because
it arrives as a single (sometimes two) very long e-mail(s).  Essentially
you have to space down through thousands of lines, looking for the nuggets
of truth and value.  This is also why multiple levels of past messages can
get irritating

There is at least one e-mail program that will separate the digest back out
into individual messages, but mine (Eudora) doesn't seem to do anything as
clever as that, and I would suspect that there are a lot of other digest
readers who suffer similarly.

Incidentally, this is the reason that when I reply to items on this list, I
sometimes miss the "Subject".  Everything is cut and pasted so it has to
put in manually.  My apologies in advance.

John D. Alleyn-Day
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