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Subject: getting both formats (was Digests)
From: "David W. Tamkin" <dattier @ ripco . com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:19:35 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104110922430.916-100000@two.elistx.com> from "James M Galvin" at Apr 11, 2001 09:48:03 AM

Jim Galvin wrote,

| I just did a quick check of my lists and discovered that as many as 3% of
| subscribers are on both the discussion list and the digest list when a list
| supports both.  I'm not even going to try and explain that one.

Sometimes a person is so interested in a topic as to want to receive the
individual messages because

 1) if the list is unmoderated, they come through as they are submitted
    without the member's waiting for them to appear in a digest issue, or
 2) they are easier to reply to or easier to arrange in threads for reading;

but also to want to receive the digests because

 1) they are easier to keep in a personal archive; or
 2) because they are numbered, a member can make sure that (s)he receives
    all articles.




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