On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
>
> This is a critical point about digests, IMO. A digest is a way
> to amortize the interruption factor of email. While email is
> great, it's also disruptive in the way a phone call at the office
> is disruptive. It tends (or does for me ;) to want to pull your
> attention to the email immediately, pre-empting all other work.
> This happens for me because until I look at some part of the
> email, I don't know whether it's my boss asking me a question, or
> a fellow bass player asking whether it's useful to boil strings.
> :)
YES, in thunder! And not only in the office!
> So, because most digests only get delivered once or a few times a
> day, I cut down on the number of interruptions to my daily
> workflow.
>
> But -- and this is crucial -- when I burst a digest I want it to
> contain all the information necessary to ignore the fact that it
> came to me in a digest. I.e. I want to be able to reply to it,
> folder it, search on it, etc. just as if it were an immediate
> delivery.
Speaking very hesitantly and apologetically -- might could
it be that there were hope of something like listserv's Index
option on smaller listservers? I dunno straight up about bursting a
digest -- what that is, whether I have even the capability, how to
use it if so, etc., etc. -- but I can and do use the Index option
on very busy list, without knowing about bursts.
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RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
double retiree, linux greenhorn running pine 4.43 on ISP's SunOS 5.8;
Opera 6.02, Pan 0.11.2, Galeon 1.2.0, & Mozilla 0.9.9 under RH 7.2
Keep in mind that I have no idea what I am talking about.
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