For me one at a time is better, although seldom do I read only the Subject Line. For me that makes moving it to a folder or printing it and even replying to it much easier. Kay Chestnut ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann Frederking To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Are you getting too many List Emails? I hope this goes through - may not because I'm using my web mail instead of my regular mail. But I respectfully disagree with John. As long as the subject is relevent, I feel it is much easier to control individual messages than to wade through a digest, most of which may not be of interest. I simply delete based on subject. It is also much easier to save the few messages that are of special interest if they come individually. The key is filtering them to a separate mailbox. Ann On Oct 21, "John H. Beach" <John_H_Beach@compuserve.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Those of you that are getting too many Delaware List emails are probably > set up on the List as receiving each and every email sent to the List by > others as separate emails. This can be troublesome if there is a lot of > activity on the List like it is at the present (which it should be). Even > in the Digest mode, I have seen some days where there are 5 or 6 Digest > messages, but this is rare. This would mean some 50 or 60 separate List > email messages. Ouch!! > > I can see how this is overwhelming. To correct this you have to be > reassign to the List as a Digest List Reader. Under this format the many > emails to the List will be placed into one file and sent to you with a > header like this last Digest as follows: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Rollcall - Sprague (Barbara Heard) > 2. Re: Wheeler Book (CMMEADOWS2@aol.com) > 3. Re: Roll call-Alexander Gray (SDetweiler@aol.com) > 4. discontinue from subscribers list (Nan13143@aol.com) > 5. Re: discontinue from subscribers list (Ann and Bob Frederking) > 6. Re: discontinue from subscribers list (Robert Bishop) > 7. Re: Roll Call--WOOD (lindawatsonsmith@aim.com) > 8. attn: John Aiello Los Angeles (Joan Hantel) > 9. 35 Identified Photographs, Most From Walton (CaroleeRI@aol.com) > 10. Re: Roll Call Russell-Chisholm-Winter-Taber (BKSSFISH@aol.com) > 11. Re: 35 Identified Photographs, Most From Walton > (Fred & Helene Ballantyne) > > Then you can scan down to the one(s) you want to read. Email programs > handle these Digest emails differently. Some just place the full Digest on > the screen to scroll through and other break down each topic as a separate > subject to click on. Of course you can still keep receiving the separate > emails and if you program has filters you can set it for keywords to grab > those emails and place then in one or more email boxes to be read later and > the balance will be junked. This is not the best way since the sender may > not have the best subject wording for you filter to grab what you are only > looking for and you will miss valuable information. > > You might have been in Digest mode and with the new changes, you might have > been re-assigned to the single List mode. It is not certain why this > happened, but a few were changed. You can get back to the Digest mode or > change you current reader status to Digest mode. It is simple. > > To get into the Digest mode (if you are in the Single List mode) you have > to unsubscribe: > > Send an email to the List to the following address: > NYDELAWA-L-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. You may or may not get > an automatic response to your request. > > Then resend another email to the list as follows: > NYDELAWA-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and in the body of the message. You may or may not > get an automatic response to your request. > > After this you should only get one or two Digest emails a day depending on > how much List traffic is being handled that day. You should see the main > email header like NYDELAWA Digest, Vol 1, Issue 53. The clue is the word > Digest. > > PLEASE, for those that REPLY to a List message, enter a good description > for your reply in the Subject Line. If not you will get the only the > generic List Email Header: NYDELAWA Digest, Vol 1, Issue 53 , which > really means nothing to the List readers that receive your email. > > DO NOT repeat the whole Digest contents, some 10 or more emails Only > REPLY, QUOTE or CLIP the subject or lines you are responding to, not the > full text content in there Digest email. This keeps the long repeating > subjects, not relevant to your response, out of the next Digest message and > therefore your scanning of the Digest will go much faster and the email > archive storage servers will use up less room. These large Digest emails > often are trashed by various email services and you will not get what you > are looking for. > > Read your Email Help, Options and Preferences to set the REPLY parameters > properly to minimize your Reply email size. > > Sorry for getting into this subject, but I know there are users that are > not too familiar with these List operations and it just makes it harder for > you and the others to quickly scan the email from these Rootsweb lists > without the frustrations some of you are venting about. I hope we can > close this subject for now. Respond to me or Rene off the List with > private email for further help. > > Enjoy the great Delaware List. and Welcome Rene as our new moderator > administrator. > > Kind regards, > > John H. Beach > > Yonkers, NY > > john_h_beach@compuserve.com > > Note: The "_" character is the underscore character, NOT a space or dash. > October 21, 2006 > 9:06 am > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
If you get the digest version in the MIME format, you can do all those things easily. Each message comes as a separate attachment, if you open one it's just like getting a separate email and you can reply to it or print it individually. You can also drag the message from the email's attachment list to one of your folders and save it like an individual email. The MIME digest version includes one attachment for each message plus one listing the subjects of the messages and one with a "footer" giving info on how to unsubscribe and how to contact the administrator. I don't normally open the attachment with the subjects because they are also in the attachment list of the message. -----Original Message----- From: N & K Chestnut [mailto:nkopportunity@gorge.net] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:01 PM To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] I like mine one at a time, also. For me one at a time is better, although seldom do I read only the Subject Line. For me that makes moving it to a folder or printing it and even replying to it much easier. Kay Chestnut ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann Frederking To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Are you getting too many List Emails? I hope this goes through - may not because I'm using my web mail instead of my regular mail. But I respectfully disagree with John. As long as the subject is relevent, I feel it is much easier to control individual messages than to wade through a digest, most of which may not be of interest. I simply delete based on subject. It is also much easier to save the few messages that are of special interest if they come individually. The key is filtering them to a separate mailbox. Ann On Oct 21, "John H. Beach" <John_H_Beach@compuserve.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Those of you that are getting too many Delaware List emails are probably > set up on the List as receiving each and every email sent to the List by > others as separate emails. This can be troublesome if there is a lot of > activity on the List like it is at the present (which it should be). Even > in the Digest mode, I have seen some days where there are 5 or 6 Digest > messages, but this is rare. This would mean some 50 or 60 separate List > email messages. Ouch!! > > I can see how this is overwhelming. To correct this you have to be > reassign to the List as a Digest List Reader. Under this format the many > emails to the List will be placed into one file and sent to you with a > header like this last Digest as follows: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Rollcall - Sprague (Barbara Heard) > 2. Re: Wheeler Book (CMMEADOWS2@aol.com) > 3. Re: Roll call-Alexander Gray (SDetweiler@aol.com) > 4. discontinue from subscribers list (Nan13143@aol.com) > 5. Re: discontinue from subscribers list (Ann and Bob Frederking) > 6. Re: discontinue from subscribers list (Robert Bishop) > 7. Re: Roll Call--WOOD (lindawatsonsmith@aim.com) > 8. attn: John Aiello Los Angeles (Joan Hantel) > 9. 35 Identified Photographs, Most From Walton (CaroleeRI@aol.com) > 10. Re: Roll Call Russell-Chisholm-Winter-Taber (BKSSFISH@aol.com) > 11. Re: 35 Identified Photographs, Most From Walton > (Fred & Helene Ballantyne) > > Then you can scan down to the one(s) you want to read. Email programs > handle these Digest emails differently. Some just place the full Digest on > the screen to scroll through and other break down each topic as a separate > subject to click on. Of course you can still keep receiving the separate > emails and if you program has filters you can set it for keywords to grab > those emails and place then in one or more email boxes to be read later and > the balance will be junked. This is not the best way since the sender may > not have the best subject wording for you filter to grab what you are only > looking for and you will miss valuable information. > > You might have been in Digest mode and with the new changes, you might have > been re-assigned to the single List mode. It is not certain why this > happened, but a few were changed. You can get back to the Digest mode or > change you current reader status to Digest mode. It is simple. > > To get into the Digest mode (if you are in the Single List mode) you have > to unsubscribe: > > Send an email to the List to the following address: > NYDELAWA-L-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. You may or may not get > an automatic response to your request. > > Then resend another email to the list as follows: > NYDELAWA-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and in the body of the message. You may or may not > get an automatic response to your request. > > After this you should only get one or two Digest emails a day depending on > how much List traffic is being handled that day. You should see the main > email header like NYDELAWA Digest, Vol 1, Issue 53. The clue is the word > Digest. > > PLEASE, for those that REPLY to a List message, enter a good description > for your reply in the Subject Line. If not you will get the only the > generic List Email Header: NYDELAWA Digest, Vol 1, Issue 53 , which > really means nothing to the List readers that receive your email. > > DO NOT repeat the whole Digest contents, some 10 or more emails Only > REPLY, QUOTE or CLIP the subject or lines you are responding to, not the > full text content in there Digest email. This keeps the long repeating > subjects, not relevant to your response, out of the next Digest message and > therefore your scanning of the Digest will go much faster and the email > archive storage servers will use up less room. These large Digest emails > often are trashed by various email services and you will not get what you > are looking for. > > Read your Email Help, Options and Preferences to set the REPLY parameters > properly to minimize your Reply email size. > > Sorry for getting into this subject, but I know there are users that are > not too familiar with these List operations and it just makes it harder for > you and the others to quickly scan the email from these Rootsweb lists > without the frustrations some of you are venting about. I hope we can > close this subject for now. Respond to me or Rene off the List with > private email for further help. > > Enjoy the great Delaware List. and Welcome Rene as our new moderator > administrator. > > Kind regards, > > John H. Beach > > Yonkers, NY > > john_h_beach@compuserve.com > > Note: The "_" character is the underscore character, NOT a space or dash. > October 21, 2006 > 9:06 am > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message