At 01:37 AM 4/20/2002 -0400, Carl Grohs, Jr. wrote: >I can't understand why anyone would use individual messages. But people seem >to like it. Go figure... I'll jump in on this one. I've tried the digest format and gave it up. I like the individual messages much better for three reasons. Two were mentioned here. The HTML artifacts and having to cut and paste to reply to an individual posting. The third was even more bothersome to me. When reading a digest and you are interrupted in the middle, you lose your place in the digest and have to start over (I haven't used the digest on this particular list, but on the one I did, some of the digests were god-awful long and it was hard to find your place again). I use Eudora and have established two mail boxes, one "Epson Inkjet - New" and one Epson Inkjet - Saved". I have set a filter so that any message that comes in with "epson-inkjet" in the To: header gets transferred into the Epson Inkjet - New mailbox. I have that mailbox set to sort the messages by subject and I wind up with a mailbox that looks very much like a digest except that they are sorted so that I can delete a whole group of messages if I am not interested in them. I can go through them and if I find one I want to keep, I transfer it to the "Epson Inkjet - Saved" mailbox (one click and drag - no cut-and-paste) and the others I delete as I go, thus I don't get lost if I'm interrupted. The saved mailbox serves the same purpose as your WordPad file. As far as I'm concerned, this is the only way to go. I assume most other mail readers can do something similar. **************** James E. Martz Milan, OH jemartz@earthlink.net ***************** - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.