I can go through a lot of list messages quickly by just hitting the delete
button when the subject matter is not of interest. The digest actually takes
more time because you can't do that. The only advantage of the digest, to
me, is that you don't have so many separate messages cluttering your in-box.
Having the options of choosing either or both is good. /jim
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jim Brokaw
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:08 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Some digest stats
on 1/21/04 8:23 PM, Mike at watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure I get the point, Mike? Are you saying that there somehow are
>> problems with the digest?
>>
>> --thomas
>>
> Thomas, There are no technical problems and the post was meant as a
> constructive review of the post change digest.. The digest is better now
> with the stripping of html. I would guess that there is an approximate
> reduction of unnecessary text of about 10%. However the actual fresh
> posts even counting headers still make up only about 1/3 of the digest
> content, i.e. twice as much garbage as content. The rest is quoted text,
> signatures, etc. This result based on my informal survey of the last
> digest (my previous post). I would suggest that to get a meaningful
> reduction in clutter a limit on quoted text must be put in place. Maybe
> shoot for a reversal of the present content/garbage ratio of 1:2
>
> Mike
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