At 11:36 PM 9/11/02 -0500, Mizzee wrote: >I for one don't understand how someone can complain about receiving posts >regarding Williams families, on a Williams mailing list. Does that make >sense? What is the purpose of a *Williams* mailing list, if NOT to post >info re your Williams line? How else are you going to connect to someone >else, who is looking for the same people you are but may have some info >you don't. > >I do have one question, tho, I AM on the Digest list ... however I've been >receiving four Digest emails each day, each one is different. How is this >happening? Not sure who to write to, so I'm posting to the list. Is >anyone else out there getting more than one Digest email per day? > >Keep the Williams roll call going! :) > >Phyllis Hi, Phyllis: When the number of messages reaches a certain point, set by the list admin, a Digest is sent and the count starts over. Multiple Digests in one day when there is heavy traffic is therefore not only possible, but normal. On one genealogy software list, when a long-awaited new version was released I got about a dozen digests, per day, for about a week! Hope this helps. Darrell Darrell A. Martin a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com