Digital BW, The Print

Quoting marktuckerdotcom <mark@...>:

> It would be interesting to know what percentage of people on this 
> list get the email version and which are set to "No Mail" which 
> would indicate the web version.

I think Martin already mentioned that it was about 50/50.

> For me, I'm not willing to receive that many individual mails, and 
> the Digest version is too time consuming to wade through to find 
> valuable nuggets. So the web version is all that I'm interested in. 
> But once you choose that, then the ad slam begins.

I'd encourage anyone who hasn't already tried it, to see if their email program 
supports filtering incoming mail. I went through the same thing as Mark, 
overwhelmed by too much mail, then switched to digest and figured out how bad 
that sucked, then realized the web interface is pretty useless (this was even 
before the interstitial ads). (BTW, this page about all the differnt ads that 
yahoo sells is enlightening http://solutions.yahoo.com/adspecs/index.html) Then 
I remembered those little rules that you can set up in Outlook, and in about 10 
seconds I had all the list messages dropping right into their own separate 
folder in my inbox, as soon as they arrive. Now I can sort the messages however 
I want, I don't suffer the ads, and I read more, because opening the messages 
is much faster than on the web.

I appreciate some people's want or need to read the messages on the web, but I 
agree with the previous post about the quality of the community being higher 
due to email. I keep up with the list because it drops in my lap every time I 
read my mail, if I had to make a point of seeking it out I'd participate a lot 
less.

So I guess I'm voting for not moving.

-Jason

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