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Message no. 1
From: The Reverend <MDB0213@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Digest?!
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 14:23:30 -0600
]> Can someone tell me how to put this into digest mode? Every thime I send
]> a help request to the server, I neither get a responce or a bounce...

]Send to the listserv:

]set shadowrn digest
gosh, this thing has a DIGEST? I feel humbled... but considering the
back-and-forth arguments on this list (and the volume that I respond to), I
think i'll stick with bounce.

Rev
Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Digest?!
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 15:54:58 -0600
On Sun, 31 Oct 1993, The Reverend wrote:

> gosh, this thing has a DIGEST? I feel humbled... but considering the
> back-and-forth arguments on this list (and the volume that I respond to), I
> think i'll stick with bounce.

Yes, it has a digest. It comes out only one time per day, though. If
that is what you want, knock yourself out.

____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu
\ /__ -=-=-=-=- <=> -=-=-=-=-
\/ / Finger for Geek Code Info <=> Veteran of the Bermuda Triangle
\/ Finger for PGP 2.3a Public Key <=> Expeditionary Force -- 1993-1951
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
(GEEK CODE 1.0.1) GSS d- -p+(---) c++(++++) l++ u++ e+/* m++(*)@ s-/++
n-(---) h+(*) f+ g+ w++ t++ r++ y+(*)
Message no. 3
From: The Reverend <MDB0213@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Digest?!
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 16:21:52 -0600
ERROR: This message seems to be empty. It is located at LOG9310E.RN::176954,262.
Message no. 4
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Digest?!
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 17:33:26 -0600
On Sun, 31 Oct 1993, The Reverend wrote:

> One time a day.... considering the volume of this list (and those oh-so-fun
> people mailing/re-mailing programs to the list), I think I'll find another way
> to mail-bomb my account. Maybe post to alt.fan.rhps (joke! I already have 3
> versions of scripts!) and ask for a copy. Or just subscribe to a chain-letter
> mailing list. To quote Herr Doom: "Bleh."

Actually, a digest is signlificantly smaller than all of the individual
mailing, as you don't have the 1k of headers with each posting.
Considering that Shadowrun averages between 40 and 60 messages a day
during the week, that is a substantial savings if you don't read your
mail more than once a day. But if all you do is stay logged in and are
able to read and delete your mail as it comes in, leaving your
distributions non-digested probably makes more sense.

As I said, to each their own. I'm online enough that digesting doesn't
make sense for me. But of another person only gets on once or twice a
week, digesting is a boon.

And it isn't very often that some idiot spams the list with files like that.



____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu
\ /__ -=-=-=-=- <=> -=-=-=-=-
\/ / Finger for Geek Code Info <=> Veteran of the Bermuda Triangle
\/ Finger for PGP 2.3a Public Key <=> Expeditionary Force -- 1993-1951
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
(GEEK CODE 1.0.1) GAT d- -p+(---) c++(++++) l++ u++ e+/* m++(*)@ s-/++
n-(---) h+(*) f+ g+ w++ t++ r++ y+(*)
Message no. 5
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Digest
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 17:25:04 -0700
Boy I must be stupid

I read almost every mail message I get from
Shadow Talk/Run/Plot/Tome

May be I need medical help - "hellooooooo Nurse!!!!"

Nah - I'm beyond help.


Toast to the DLOH

No, didn't DID I? Drek, I did!!!!!

Howdy Doody Doody Doodly doo.

Sound of breaking glass, and words slowly falling away into the night.


Dan

Hey Rob - nows a good time to repost the Pumpkin question!!!!!!
Message no. 6
From: "The Burgundy Man (BURGUNDY@**.TEMPLE.EDU)"
Subject: DIgest!
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 20:20:04 EDT
ACK!!! When does the DIGEST feature kick in!!?!?!


The "My Mailbox Floweth Over" Burgundy Man
Message no. 7
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: DIgest!
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 20:01:08 -0500
On Mon, 2 May 1994, The Burgundy Man (BURGUNDY@**.TEMPLE.EDU) wrote:

> ACK!!! When does the DIGEST feature kick in!!?!?!

As soon as you set it you will stop getting each posting individually.

This is in the FAQ.

____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu
\ /__ -=-=-=-=- <=> -=-=-=-=-
\/ / Finger for Geek Code Info <=> Political Correctness is
\/ Finger for PGP 2.3a Public Key <=> P.C. for "Thought Police"
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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n-(---) h+(*) f+ g+ w++ t++ r++ y+(*)
Message no. 8
From: Jai Tao <jdfalk@****.COM>
Subject: Re: DIgest!
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 00:25:13 -0400
On Mon, 2 May 1994, The Burgundy Man (BURGUNDY@**.TEMPLE.EDU) wrote:

> ACK!!! When does the DIGEST feature kick in!!?!?!
>
You have to request it. Check the LISTSERV help file that you
received when you first subscribed. If you didn't read it and wantonly
deleted it, send the message "help" to <listserv@*****.nic.SURFnet.nl>
(for us Internet people), and all will be revealed.

Lots of new people on this list recently...has somebody been
advertising or something?
Message no. 9
From: Joshua T Brown <spamquat@****.COM>
Subject: Digest???
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:26:09 EST
Is there a problem with the RN digest? I've only gotten 4 or 5 digests in
the last month or so.... which accounts for my exceptional quietness for
a while..... Nope, can't attribute it to lurking or (yet another)
netdeath..... <smirk> At least not his time...


Just My Two Pence.
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Message no. 10
From: Snow Leopard <dvixen@********.COM>
Subject: Re: Digest???
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:31:17 -0800
> Is there a problem with the RN digest? I've only gotten 4 or 5 digests
in
> the last month or so.... which accounts for my exceptional quietness for
> a while..... Nope, can't attribute it to lurking or (yet another)
> netdeath..... <smirk> At least not his time...

Hmmm... Can't answer that, not right away. I'd have to set to digest and
see what happens. I receive two or three digests a day from another list,
which has about half the traffic as this one.

But if you are still having trouble, send to the
listserv@********.itribe.net

set shadowrn mail
set shadowrn digest

The first command will put you so you are receiving individual posts, as
well as turn your mail back on incase you had sent a 'nomail' command.

--
Dvixen/Snow Leopard dvixen@********.com
"And I thought First Ones were rare." - Ivanova - Babylon 5
The opinions expressed are those of the myriad voices in my head

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