Please help.

I was told by my boss to set up a ListServ (had to google that). That was easy as it's farmed out to a 3rd party, but now I'm the admin and I need to know the difference between a "digested member" and "non-digested member" when looking at the subscriber list.

Please, only serious responses!

...Oh. "Serious responses."

Damn...

ScottHar

P.S. "Digested member"?!?!

found this on google

http://itc.virginia.edu/email/mailing-lists/advadminnondigestoptions.html 

dunno if this helps or not

Digest – Use this keyword to control the automatic digestification function allowing subscribers who do not have the time to read large numbers of messages as they arrive to subscribe to a digestified or indexed version of the list. The list owner decides whether digests are available or not, the frequency at which they are issued, and the day of week or time of day when the digest should be distributed.

I think that a digested member is someone who subscribes to a digest list, which is distributed to encapsulate a bunch of messages or e-mails pooled to a group of people.

A non-digested member would be a person who received a digest, but is not a subscriber.

Best guess on my part.

I have a hard enough time dealing with frickin' Subversion.

I think a digest is when you are sent an index/list of all of the "data" that is being distributed. Clicking on the list will bring up the article/email/whatever.

Undigested doesn't send an index/list. You get ALL of the info.

I'm prolly wrong though.

Thanks Jpotts and everybody else.

So I am not going to create a digest because the info sent to people who join the listserv will be few and far between. I dont know why I am admin for this thing. It's very complicated, especially because its govt. run.

there are a couple of options.

The customary way that a listserv/mail list is set up is that users who subscribe to the non-digest version get an email each time something is posted to the list. Digest users have the postings combined and sent in a large file far less often.

The frequency and size of the digest are configurable things. For example, the admin can set up the digest so that once a day it sends a file that contains all of the postings for that day. Another common method is that when some number of messages or some volume of messages is received(i.e., when 50 messages are received or when the amount of data is 250K, etc.), the listserv sends out a digest.

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I dont see a need for that now as we may post once per week! Very low activity.

fair enough - as always that is a decision that is determined based on your requirements and business needs.

I just wanted you to have the answer that you asked for.

8. Author: djk Date: 03/05/2010 11:55 AM Reply

Thanks Jpotts and everybody else.

So I am not going to create a digest because the info sent to people who join the listserv will be few and far between. I dont know why I am admin for this thing. It’s very complicated, especially because its govt. run.

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Hence the unneeded complexity.

11. I really do appreciate it and didn't mean to sound negative. Seriously I'm really glad for these responses. This was a big help.

12. You have no idea. Honest to G-d. There is so much waste. I can't talk on open forum. You would pop!