Re: loopers digest frequency query

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Hi Rick,

afaik

There's a maximum size in Bytes for a digest, based on everyone posting 
in plain text to the list.
So when someone sends a post in HTML, it's possible that the max size 
gets exceeded rather quickly.
Some email programs give you the opportunity to say you want to post in 
plain text, but mostly they default to HTML. There's also the webmail 
sites,( like Yahoo? ) which like to add masses of advertising for their 
services to every mail. So it's a product of the software that runs the 
list, combined with the fact that contributors are often being led 
(unknowingly) to confound the system by the email system that they use.


Best way is to set your email client to put LD posts into a separate 
folder, then it's even no problem to get the individual posts, as it's 
all tidied away. This helps to preserve threading for the archive when 
you make your replies.

Hope this clears it up for you.

cheers

andy butler

RICK WALKER wrote:
> Today I recieved five different loopers delight daily digests, four of 
> them with just two or three posts in them.
> 
> I was under the impression that this was a daily digest.
> 
> Why do we get long single ones and then some days of multiple lists with 
> very few posts?
> 
> I'm not bent out of shape,  just curious.
> 
> with respect,  Rick
> 
>