[Elecraft] digest settings

[Don Wilhelm]

Leo,
There is no way that I know of for an individual subscriber to set a 
limit on the number of posts in a digest.
But there are alternatives --
My opinion follows - YMMV
If shorter digests are your desire, it may be easier just to get the 
very shortest form - individual postings - rather than the digest.  Most 
Email clients have a sorting capability, and I place all email with 
'[Elecraft]' in the subject line into my Elecraft folder - that keeps 
the reflector emails separate from my other email.  Mozilla Thunderbird 
and a few others will also allow you to view the posts in threaded 
format if you like that format.  Responding to an individual email is 
easier if you receive the individual posts.
Receiving individual posts can also allow you to quickly delete those 
that you are not interested in and retain only those of interest.

The only reason I can understand for receiving the email in digest form 
is to consolidate the posts into one joint email, and I find that 
cumbersome to wade through separating the wheat from the chaff because 
it must be done in a serial manner - the individual posts sorted by my 
email makes that separation task a lot faster and easier.

73,
Don W3FPR

Leo Bricker K5LDB wrote:
> Is there a way to set a cutoff number of messages to get per digest? 
> Sometimes I get upwards of 50 per digest and it makes it challenging 
> to follow threads. I'd rather get 2 or 3 digests of 20 messages a day 
> than a single huge one, if that's possible. Thanks and 73.
>