Here what I do, I unsub them from Digest mode and sub them on mail mode. No ands, ifs or buts. The poster gets the message in an hurry. Never failed because it worked every time. No one ever complained. David S. On 7/4/2012 4:09 AM, Diana Gale Matthiesen wrote: > 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