RE: [ST] alternative format for Digest

["David J. Hughes" <bambi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I think a message board would be less cumbersome for the
> end-user, so their
> email isn't flooded daily.  Instead they can search on a topic at their
> leisure.

Surely it is more convenient for a dialup user to just suck down the 20-40
small, text emails.  Having to sit there and wade through some graphic-rich,
web based, board environment would annoy me to distraction over a dialup
link.  I receive about 150 to 200 messages a day and its usually a case of

	* Plug in the notebook
	* Start the mail download
	* Head off to make a coffee


As for the previous "threads" argument, my ST mail is foldered and sorted on
Subject so I can't see any benefit from moving to a news group.  Sure, a
digest is harder to deal with but the individual message format works just
fine for threaded reading.

Just my 1.04 cents worth
(that's 2 Aussie cents at the current AUS/US exchange rate).



Bambi
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