RE: RE: Ferns Digest Subscriptions

Hi Bob,

A digest subscription sends you, at intervals (I think just one a
day or maybe even less frequently) a single message containing
the ferns emails for that interval.  I have just subscribed (so now
I'm on both) and I will be able to be more definitive as to how often
that mail is distributed.  Once I'm sure about it, I'll send a confirmation
to the group.

A digest subscription is not very dynamic...if that matters to you...
you just get the one message with lots to scroll through and the
message of interest may be recent or old, there may be responses 
or not yet in the digest.  If an author was on-line and just sent
something that you might want to reply to off-list, it probably won't
happen because the digest comes later and the person may not
still be on-line when you read it...etc.

The advantage of the digest is that your email box isn't filled with
lots of messages...just the one big one.  If your ISP charges you
by the message, then this is a financial advantage.  Of course if
my ISP did this to me, I'd be looking for a new ISP.

ross

> ----------
> From: 	Bob Carroll
> Reply To: 	ferns@hort.net
> Sent: 	Friday, August 23, 2002 12:59 PM
> To: 	ferns@hort.net
> Subject: 	Re: [ferns] RE: Ferns Digest Subscriptions
> 
> Ross, for those of us who are technically challenged, please explain what
> a
> digest subscription is.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "KONING,ROSS E. (Biology)" <KONING@easternct.edu>
> To: "KONING,ROSS E. (Biology)" <KONING@easternct.edu>; "'Frank & Lara'"
> <larafrank@wolpert1.freeserve.co.uk>; <guy.vanderkinderen@rug.ac.be>;
> <ferns@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 12:44 PM
> Subject: [ferns] RE: Ferns Digest Subscriptions
> 
> 
> > Greetings Fern Lovers!
> >
> > Several of you have asked for digest subscriptions.
> > I am pleased to announce that Chris Lindsey has
> > made this available to us. Thanks Chris!
> >
> > Digest subscriptions on the new server are not a
> > setting that I make, but rather is handled by a
> > completely different subscription.  So you do it
> > yourself....here's how....
> >
> > Send an email to:
> >
> > majordomo@hort.net
> >
> > that has the three-line message:
> >
> > unsubscribe ferns
> > subscribe ferns-digest
> > end
> >
> > This set of three commands to majordomo tell it to:
> >
> > unsubscribe you from the regular one-at-a-time ferns list
> > subscribe you to the digest form of the ferns list
> > and that's all.
> >
> > You could send the two important commands in separate
> > emails, but it is easier to just type the three lines.  Of course
> > you will get an email you need to answer to confirm the changes.
> >
> > I have previously reminded folks that we can also not subscribe
> > at all and simply visit our ferns list pages on the hort.net website.
> > The threaded archives there provide a way to read one post and
> > the responses that come to it during each month.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > ross
> > > ----------
> > > From: Frank & Lara
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:21 PM
> > > To: KONING@easternct.edu
> > > Subject: Digest
> > > Message Flag: Follow up
> > > Flag Status: Flagged
> > >
> > > Ross,
> > >
> > > Would it be possible for you to set my fern listserv subscription so
> that
> > > all the e-mails arrive on a daily/weekly basis.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > Frank Wolpert
> > >
> > >
> >
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