Sinister: Digest size, Edinburgh etc.

[Honey]

On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Mark Dawson wrote:

> I might be a bit late with this news as I'm only getting the (huge) digest
> version, but...

Yep, Mark made this point to me privately - the first digest *was* huge.
Traffic on the list has died down a little after the first rush, and my
feeling is that a digest any more frequently than once a day would annoy
some people - but I'm happy to do whatever people think.  So if people on
the digest would like to let me know how often they would like it to be
produced - I can limit this by days or by size.  I'll do whatever the
majority of digest people ask for, but please only digest subscribers vote
- and directly to me rather than cluttering up the list!

On the subject of Edinburough (sic) and stephen.b - your list
administrator lives there and likes it normally except during August
when it fills up with Oxbridge students pretending to be trees - but he's
not the sulky type.

I've had lots more comments on the subject of "relevancy" of the list -
thanks for your feedback.  Things have got a bit quieter now and a bit
more sensible apart from the "pig" mailing (thanks for that it was a gift
to my cause! - if anyone wants *more* of that type of mail let me know?!).
The majority view is still to try to stick to B&S related stuff, with
some very strong (and amusing) feelings from some in that direction, but
there *are* people who disagree and want a wider spread of views.  I think
things look sensible now, but I will continue to reflect the majority view
of people who mail me privately about it - I promise.

Oh and I'll put Alan's chords on the WWW page when I get a minute.  Enough
for now.

Paul
email: sinister-owner at ph.ed.ac.uk







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