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 >

I tend to scan thru all - only takes a few minutes aaaaaaaaaaannnddd - I'm afraid I might miss something that might fit with things I'm working on. Harriett ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann Frederking To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:19 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