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Actually, turning off digest is a  single radio button. I have it turned =

off on a couple of low-volume lists. But, some people do find it very=20
useful as both Allan and Mark mentioned.

On 10/21/2008 11:20 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> I just checked the subscriber list, and 20% of the addresses
> subscribed to the BLU discuss list are set to digest mode.
> This seems to indicate a significant population that finds value
> in list digests.
>
> Why do these people prefer digests? I don't know. I could
> speculate, but that wouldn't prove anything. However, i
> don't see any reason why these people should have to
> justify their preference.
>
> Why do we provide a digest version of the list? It comes that
> way by default in Mailman, and turning it off would take an
> extra effort that wouldn't gain us anything.
>
>  =20


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