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Re: Digest or unsubscribe??!?!

To: Josh Sirota <josh@sirota.org>, Stacey <swilbur@sprynet.com>,
Subject: Re: Digest or unsubscribe??!?!
From: Bryan Medway <creative@razorlab.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 22:11:32 -0800
Thanks you two.

The main reason I wanted to change it to digest was I couldn't handle my
email program telling me I had mail every 10 minutes. (I thought it was
client email)

So now it should just ring every 40minutes.. Heh

Cheers

:bryan

> Stacey, you are confused.
> 
> "ba-autox-digest" receives ALL messages to ba-autox@autox.team.net.  One
> should not send anything directly to ba-autox-digest (in fact, I think such
> messages fail).   I was subscribed to both for a while and can attest to
> zero loss.
> 
> There is a COMPLETELY separate mailing list called autox.  All messages to
> autox@autox.team.net will also go to the "ax-digest" list.
> 
> There is no crossover between the two lists unless someone explicitly
> addresses a message to both lists (something I'd recommend against, BTW).
> 
> If you were subscribed to both ba-autox *AND* autox, and comparing the total
> number of messages there to those seen in ba-autox-digest, of course there
> would appear to be some missing in the digest.
> 
> Josh
> (long-time administrator of the ba-autox list until I "retired")
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stacey" <swilbur@sprynet.com>
> To: "Bryan Medway" <creative@razorlab.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Digest or unsubscribe??!?!
> 
> 
>> Bryan,
>> 
>> The problem with digest mode is that for some reason,
>> I guess because it is a digest, you miss a lot of the
>> correspondence.
>> 
>> For instance:
>> 
>>  Digest mode:    from  Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:27:08 -0600
>>                          to:     Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:39:05 -0600
>>                          39 messages
>> 
>> Regular mode:  Between the same times 70 messages
>> 
>> I tried it for a while and went back to the regular mode.
>> I found a way in my email program to have it automatically
>> move the autox stuff to its own folder so that I could still
>> see my other email without wading through 70 to 120 autox
>> messages. Not that I do not like reading from the list but
>> sometimes I need to look for other email and it is hard to
>> find when it is mingled.
>> 
>> Another thing I think I noticed...  Being subscribed to one instead of
>> both seems to generate some message loss, as some people post only to
>> ax-digest@autox.team.net  which does not seem to always get
>> copied to ba-autox@autox.team.net
>> 
>> -Stacey
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bryan Medway" <creative@razorlab.com>
>> To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: Digest or unsubscribe??!?!
>> 
>> 
>>> Thanks to all that responded. I am now in digest mode.. =)
>>> 
>>> :bryan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ... . .  .   .    .     .     .       .          .             .
>>> Bryan Medway
>>> http://www.razorlab.com
>>> http://www.razorlab.com/portfolio/
>>> ... . .  .   .    .     .     .       .          .             .
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> I asked this awhile back and got no answers so I figured I would ask
> again
>>>>> for the heck of it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does anyone know how I can put myself on digest mode and if not, how
> I can
>>>>> unsubscribe myself from this list?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>> 
>>>>> :bryan
>>>>> 
>>>>> ... . .  .   .    .     .     .       .          .             .
>>>>> Bryan Medway
>>>>> http://www.razorlab.com
>>>>> http://www.razorlab.com/portfolio/
>>>>> ... . .  .   .    .     .     .       .          .             .

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