Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 10:05:20 +0100
From: lleszek AT atos DOT iitis DOT gliwice DOT pl (Leszek Luchowski)
Message-ID: <9602130905.AA07882@atos.iitis.gliwice.pl>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Is there a way to digest this list?

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 
> On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Leszek Luchowski wrote:
> 
> > some other discussion lists have a digest option that helps a lot
> > to cope with the flood of postings. I haven't seen any such thing
> > in the instructions I received when subscribing here. Any hints?
> 
> If by ``digest option'' you mean a (human) moderator who will filter the
> messages, then somebody should volunteer to do such a job.  If what you
> want is just to get the messages spliced together in large chunks (that's
> what the digest options usually do), then I guess this depends on whether
> such a feature is supported by the list server on DJ's machine,

This is what I was asking. Sorry if it was unclear. From what I heard
the answer is no.

> although I
> don't see how this could help you: the volume will be the same.

Since only a few of the messages are relevant to me (either as questions
I can answer or as answers I need), this kind of digest option would
help a lot to *delete* the day's worth of discussion after I'm done
with it. If I see the postings as individual e-mails, with individual
"from" addresses for some reason, private mail can get lost in the crowd.

> 
> You can make your life easier if you use the comp.os.msdos.djgpp 
> newsgroup and unsubscribe from the list.  The newsgroup and the list are 

I'm not sure I can read newsgroups; perhaps this feature has been added
recently - will have to find out.

> two-way gated, so you don't need them both.  If you can read the 
> newsgroup, you will only get the messages you find interesting (using 
> their subject lines).

BTW: How come some messages have numeric subject lines like 12/345 ?
Is there a way to symify them?

Thanks a lot,
Leszek.