[Elecraft] OT : Reading Elecraft Digest

[Don Wilhelm]

Rick,

I don't have an exact answer for you, BUT --

I would suggest that you not use the digest mode.  Instead sign up for 
individual emails *AND* set up your email client (either on your 
computer or on webmail) with a filter that puts all emails with 
"[Elecraft]" in the subject line into a separate folder in your 
email.Inbox.  All email clients and webmail that I have known about have 
provisions for creating filters like that.

This will effectively create your own individual 'digest'.  When you 
want to look at your 'digest', just open that folder and all the 
messages will be there - no clutter in your main Inbox, it is all in a 
separate and dedicated folder.  If you are expecting an answer to a post 
you made, you can check your Elecraft folder more frequently instead of 
waiting for the daily digest to be compiled and sent to you.

If you want to delete all messages for any given period of time after 
reviewing them, yes, you will have to highlight the whole batch of 
messages before pressing Delete, but that is an easy thing to do IMHO.  
Or delete individual posts that you have no interest in and keep those 
you want for future reference, still easy.

You can even create subfolders within that Elecraft folder for K2, K3, 
KX3, OT, etc.  That works well if everyone pays attention and puts that 
info in the subject line, some do, others forget to do it.

For me, this is a lot easier than combing through the digest to find 
posts of interest, and I consider it a big plus is that I can click on 
any single message and select Reply, Reply All, or Reply to List as I 
choose (I am using Thunderbird for my local email client, but it works 
for web mail too).  If I were receiving the digest, I would have to 
delete the non-relevant posts when creating a response.

The other option is to sign up for No Mail and look at the posts on 
Nabble (when Nabble is working correctly, I understand sometimes it gets 
behind a bit)

73,
Don W3FPR

On 5/10/2013 2:03 PM, Rick Wheeler wrote:
> I have both a yahoo and gmail account for email. I primarily use the yahoo account. Recently yahoo has decided that the 'classic' version of their format will be permanently discontinued by June 3. So I begrudgingly switched the the new format. In a nutshell, I don't like it; and plenty of forums that state the same. When reading the digest in the classic version the posts were displayed FB and it was relatively easy to follow threads. Now the posts are not clearly defined, they do not have the subjects listed, etc. I think the old school DOS looked better! Same with gmail. A real chore to read.
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> So what is a good way to download and read the digest? I tried to Google the subject and came up empty.
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