[Boatanchors] Digest Mode (was FOR SALE

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Bob,

That's a severe problem. If you can sort those kind at all you're a 
better man than me! If the subject line says "digest MM-DD-YY" and I 
open it see to the entire digest (at a glance) it's gone without a read. 
I know I probably missed something good but I won't be able to find it 
most of the time, anyway. I used digest mode on some lists a while back 
and I know it's easy to do that just by accident so I wouldn't make 
anybody stand on their head in the corner facing the wall for doing it.

Top post/Bottom post has been debated since mail lists and newsgroups 
started and we are not going to resolve that one. It just is what it is.

Merry Christmas and...

73,

Bill  KU8H


On 12/05/2015 10:58 PM, WA5CAB--- via Boatanchors wrote:
> What I hate about Digest Mode is that 95% (you may be in the 5% and if so,
> thank you) of people who use it seem to use a mail manager that copies
> forward everything, and do not delete everything except for the post that they
> are actually replying to.  So I receive the entire Digest and have to figure
> out whether their reply is at the top or most commonly at the bottom, or they
> didn't write anything.  If I can find what they actually wrote, then I may
> have to search the Digest to find the post that they are replying to and see
> what it says to make sense out of what they wrote.  This can take several
> minutes.  Lately, so many just don't seem to say anything that I mostly
> delete replies to Digest Mode.
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
>
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