[CH] the digest
Alex Silbajoris (72163.1353@compuserve.com)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:17:09 -0500
Charles Demas wrote:
>Digest subscribers probably view it as more of a magazine.
In my case, it's more like reading the morning paper. The digest gives me
a large single message that I can scroll through as if I were skimming over
a newspaper, not necessarily reading every article. I can pretty much
ignore reviews of restaurants in cities I'll never visit, or recipes I
don't care for. Sometimes I stumble on some "Oh huh, gee whiz" information
peripheral to chiles or cooking or gardening.
I can see how it would be a lot more frustrating to receive flurries of
individual messages, and open many of them to find they have nothing
directly to do with chiles.
My main peeve about the netiquette here is the inclusion of complete
messages in replies, when it isn't needed. Since everybody is using a
different mailing package here, I suppose a lot of them don't know or care
that they are including entire messages. To see the effect on the digest,
browse some of them at the chile-heads web site.
Still, I have a blast following the content of the list, and it looks like
a lot of other people are enjoying themselves, too.
Alex Silbajoris 72163.1353@compuserve.com
http://www.angelfire.com/oh/alexsleaves