[Air-l] digests and kill files (was: The Dire State of the AoIR List)
Bram Dov Abramson
bda at bazu.org
Fri Mar 8 10:13:39 PST 2002
denise.argent at ntlworld.com:
>my secondary method works better.......i check who has posted the message,
>and based on prior readings from them i'm sometimes guilty of just deleting
>them...unless i'm in the mood to be amused, annoyed or entertained and
>then...I just might read them
Like most air subscribers I read the above message as part of a
digest, which got me thinking ... has anyone seen any individual or
organisation get into providing digesting services?
Example: the digest-service offers air-l, perhaps on my request.
Thus instead of subscribing to air-l I'd subscribe to the
digest-service's version of air-l. (And, I guess, the
digesting-service would help me subscribe to air-l as a
receive-no-messages subscriber in order to allow me to post.)
I say this, of course, because it seems like the unbundling of
list-management and digest-management might be a positive thing. For
example, it would make sense for digest-managers to develop a
capability for personal kill-files, which is currently incompatible
with a digest. And which, as traffic on this list grows, would be
increasingly handy.
(It would also help e-mail lists from becoming dinosaurs next to the
really great functionalities being integrated into Web-based boards.
Which, for those who like how e-mail works and how digested e-mail
lists work, might be a happy thing.)
cheers
Bram
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