denise.argent@ntlworld.com:

my secondary method works better.......i check who has posted the message, and based on prior readings from them i'm sometimes guilty of just deleting them...unless i'm in the mood to be amused, annoyed or entertained and then...I just might read them

Like most air subscribers I read the above message as part of a digest, which got me thinking ... has anyone seen any individual or organisation get into providing digesting services? Example: the digest-service offers air-l, perhaps on my request. Thus instead of subscribing to air-l I'd subscribe to the digest-service's version of air-l. (And, I guess, the digesting-service would help me subscribe to air-l as a receive-no-messages subscriber in order to allow me to post.) I say this, of course, because it seems like the unbundling of list-management and digest-management might be a positive thing. For example, it would make sense for digest-managers to develop a capability for personal kill-files, which is currently incompatible with a digest. And which, as traffic on this list grows, would be increasingly handy. (It would also help e-mail lists from becoming dinosaurs next to the really great functionalities being integrated into Web-based boards. Which, for those who like how e-mail works and how digested e-mail lists work, might be a happy thing.) cheers Bram --