Re: reading the digest
- From: Bruce Toews <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:30:18 -0600 (CST)
There's one downfall about quoting messages. But the advantages o putting
the quoted message below the reply outweight he disadvantages, in my
opinion.
Bruce
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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Phil Halton wrote:
> I'm just curious - what's with all the repeated messages in the digest?
> Does anyone else have trouble reading the digest form of this list? I'll
> come across the same message four or five times in each digest and it makes
> it very difficult to stick with it so to speak.
>
>
> I've been on other lists where sometimes, people responding to a particular
> message in the digest, will neglect to erase the other fifty or so messages
> in the digest and as a result, you wind up with "nested" digests that take
> forever to download to say nothing about the confusion in reading them.
>
> I wonder if that's happening here? Anyway, to read this thing, I do a jaws
> search on "subject:" and just keep hitting the F3 key to find next
> occurances. If I hear "Greater" I know its a repeated message and hit F3
> again to skip over it. When I find a subject line that interests me (and
> that doesn't begin with a greater than sign) I can do a control down arrow
> to read the first paragraph.
>
> Usually, repeated messages have one or more ">" signs in front of them and
> that's not always the case in this list digest which is adding to the
> confusion. So, is it just me, or is this driving others away from reading
> the digest as well?
>
>
>
> Phil Halton
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