>i think he means porn spam.
i knew what he meant. that doesn't change the fact that it wasn't porn spam. i have no tolerance whatsoever for those who have an opinion about something they haven't read or paid attention to.
last i knew, barry subscribed to the digest. he resents lengthy material sent to the list when a clip and URL could have been sent. i also understand that he resents HTML mail because it multiplies the bytes with HTML crap and makes running the list more expensive than it should be for utterly no content. HTML crap is completely useless for list exchanges. i find it irritating as well.
my suggestion, barry, is that you change your subscription receive mail as it is sent, not the actual digest. filter the actual list mail, and filter actual listmembers who send flotsam and those who sends actual material of actual local interest only or actual forwards of huge articles. filter it into a special actual mailbox. then you can read it if you choose. or don't filter to a special actual mailbox, send it to the actual trash. if you send to the actual trash, rely on the archives if you find, from actual listmember discussion, that you are interested in what filtered actual list members originally posted.
yahoo has those capabilities. also, i'd recommend myrealbox.com. NO ADS. you can download it to your standalone email client: eudora, mozilla, pegasus. you don't have to read it on the web. you have to send through the web on certain mail clients, however.
you're using a throwaway account anyway, so who cares? doesn't ford.com, your provider, have enough bandwidth to make it a simple matter of deleting individual mails? think of the advantages of sorting by thread or sender when you receive individual mail in stead of the digest.
>thanks for an interesting diversion ;-),
>
> --ravi
i try. i've got a reputation to live up to here.
kelley