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Subject:A little moderation please From:Alisa Dean <Alisa -dot- Dean -at- MCI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:04:00 -0700
Perhaps you weren't aware of it, but you can request that the posts
be sent to you once per day in a digest form. I find this very handy,
since I get one large post, instead of multiple messages. If I want
to, I can search on specific words, scroll down quickly, whatever.
It's become relatively easy to bypass the messages that I'm not interested
in.
To get the list in digest form, sent a message with the following in
the body text (not the subject):
SET TECHWR-L DIGEST
Hope this helps.
Alisa Dean
Sr. Technical Writer
alisa -dot- dean -at- mci -dot- com
P.S. Personally, I do not advocate restricting the conversations that
are going on in the list. Obviously, they are interesting enough to
someone for them to continue.
