It isn't up to us as admins to force our subscribers to subscribe in one mode or the other. RootsWeb offers digest mode and so must we. If your list gets very little traffic then any quoted digest shouldn't be very long either. So not much of a problem. You can manage lengthy digest quotes by setting a very low message size and then when a longer quoted digest gets stuck in pending requests you can remind the person why this happened. Joan In a message dated 7/4/2012 6:16:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, DianaGM@dgmweb.net writes: Are we allowed to restrict the use of Digest mode on our lists? I am sooooooooo tired of reminding people to trim their backquotes to the *one* message they are responding to and to change the Subject of their reply to the Subject of the message. This isn't happening every once in awhile, it's happening every few days. I've even moderated one person, refusing to let his messages through unless he fixes them - and he continues to forget. My list just isn't that busy. There's no need to subscribe in Digest mode, and even if my list were busy, there are better ways to deal with it than Digest mode. I truly wish Digest mode did not exist, and I would like to not allow people to subscribe in that mode. Diana ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

What Joan said. . . . :-) I have found that setting the message size limit at 8 KB seems to work pretty well. That stops nearly all digests as replies, but also the occasional legitimate but large reply, so 10 might work better if you do not spend as much time at your computer as I do. When it bounces to me for action, I forward it to the list if it is not overly problematic or return it to the subscriber if it is, and in both cases I send a private note to the subscriber explaining the reasons. And on the subject of digests themselves, I have over time sent to many of my lists a note pointing out that subscribing in digest is unnecessary and even a disadvantage on all but the more active lists. For example, if a list typically only received 1 or 2 posts on an average day, then the net result of subscribing in digest mode is that a digest subscriber will receive that same post up to a day later than all of the list mode subscribers do. This in addition to the need to edit subject lines of digests and such, and when explained this way I have found that a substantial number of them then ask to be changed to list mode on their own. Just a thought, but it's something to consider. Of course, I am retired and spend a lot of time sitting at this computer on an average day, so I tend to have more time to more closely monitor my lists and follow up on such things than some others do, but that is a factor each of us has to consider in such cases. I talk too much. . . . Happy Independence Day to anyone else out there in the U. S. of A. David E. Cann decann@infionline.net or on Skype at "david.e.cann" -----Original Message----- From: listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of JYoung6180@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 10:38 AM To: DianaGM@dgmweb.net; Listowners-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] Digest mode It isn't up to us as admins to force our subscribers to subscribe in one mode or the other. RootsWeb offers digest mode and so must we. If your list gets very little traffic then any quoted digest shouldn't be very long either. So not much of a problem. You can manage lengthy digest quotes by setting a very low message size and then when a longer quoted digest gets stuck in pending requests you can remind the person why this happened. Joan In a message dated 7/4/2012 6:16:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, DianaGM@dgmweb.net writes: Are we allowed to restrict the use of Digest mode on our lists? I am sooooooooo tired of reminding people to trim their backquotes to the *one* message they are responding to and to change the Subject of their reply to the Subject of the message. This isn't happening every once in awhile, it's happening every few days. I've even moderated one person, refusing to let his messages through unless he fixes them - and he continues to forget. My list just isn't that busy. There's no need to subscribe in Digest mode, and even if my list were busy, there are better ways to deal with it than Digest mode. I truly wish Digest mode did not exist, and I would like to not allow people to subscribe in that mode. Diana

Changing the digest size will not fix the Subject problem. If I can't take someone off Digest mode, then I'll have to use moderation to get them to comply. But now it dawns on me that I can also reduce the message size to snag those people who are not on Digest mode, but backquote multiple messages, including multiple copies of the list's footer. Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions, Diana From: JYoung6180@aol.com [mailto:JYoung6180@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 10:38 AM To: DianaGM@dgmweb.net; Listowners-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] Digest mode It isn't up to us as admins to force our subscribers to subscribe in one mode or the other. RootsWeb offers digest mode and so must we. If your list gets very little traffic then any quoted digest shouldn't be very long either. So not much of a problem. You can manage lengthy digest quotes by setting a very low message size and then when a longer quoted digest gets stuck in pending requests you can remind the person why this happened. Joan