[NSRCA-discussion] Digest mode changes

[Tom Simes]

Hi everyone,

This e-mail list has an option on your preferences page to receive the
posts in digest mode, meaning that rather than getting each message as
it's posted, the subscriber receives the posts in batches.  There are a
few folks who prefer that deliver method and one of them pointed out to
me that although set to digest mode, he was still getting several
batches of list mail a day on busy days instead of a single daily
message as he desired.  The list software used to be set to kick out a
digest either once a day, or when the batch hit a size of 30 KB,
whichever came first.  Now the threshold is 5 MB or once a day.  Since
our max message size is 80 KB and typical messages are < 10 KB, we
would need to go over 50 messages (and likely WELL over) before hitting
the 5 MB threshold.

The upshot is, if you have selected digest mode, you should now get one
digest per day - unless we're defining snaps or someone asks whether
they should go YS, OS or electric.

-- 
Tom
 
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Tom Simes                                       simestd at netexpress.com 
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