[pbs] Including the entire message, was pbs list formatting
Mary Sue Ittner
msittner at mcn.org
Wed Apr 30 01:25:36 EDT 2008
Dear Leo,
How many times the digest is sent out each day depends on how many messages
are sent each day and how long they are. A new one is triggered when a size
threshold is reached. The size was set long ago when someone on this list
who had limited storage space requested that it not get too big because
then the messages were truncated and the last ones were left out. When most
people include the previous message in their messages as a great number of
people did today, extra digests are sent out since the size that is
triggered is reached rather rapidly. And when someone responds to the
digest by including the whole digest as someone did today, another digest
is triggered immediately.
Most days there is only one digest. I can increase the size before a digest
is triggered, but I need to hear from some of the digest subscribers first
to make sure this will work for everyone. Please send me feedback
privately, not via the list. The best way to limit the number of digests is
for people to stop including all of the previous message in their replies.
But I know no way to get people to do that.
Mary Sue
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