[HECnet] digest mode

[Peter Coghlan]

Do people really want digest mode here?

Yes (for me, at least - I always have!).   And an archive of past messages
would be really nice...


I've never see the attraction of digest mode. People who are not on digest
reply to topics of interest immediately. People on digest reply hours or days
later when everyone else has lost interest. Sometimes they end up replying
with the subject of the digest instead of the subject of the posting they are
replying to. Topics become very disjointed.

I just shove hecnet mails in a VMS MAIL folder as they arrive and I have an
instant message archive. This works ok provided there isn't too much off-topic
stuff so I don't have to decide what to keep and what to toss.

If we could agree to keep things more on topic and to put more thought into
it before banging off a quick message to the list, I wonder would that reduce
the need for a digest mode?

Regards,
Peter Coghlan.