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In response to the query about establishing a PaleoNet Digest option, I'm
happy to report that i.) I now know what listserver digests are, and ii.)
our network manager over here assures me that they can be set up on
PaleoNet.  For those of you (like myself until this morning) who have no
idea what all this talk about digests is about, allow me to explain.
You've probably noticed that postings are now coming over the PaleoNet line
with some frequency.  That's good.  However, having a new PaleoNet posting
appear in your mailbox every few hours, causing your computer to beep at
you throughout the day, can be distracting.  That's bad.  One solution to
this problem is to set up a listserver digest.  This consists of a program
that saves all of the postings to a list over a 24 hour period, puts them
all together at the end of that period, slaps a table of contents
(consisting of the author's e-mail address and whatever text is written
into the 'Subject" line of the message) onto the front of the assembled
document and then sends this package to the list of subscribed e-mail
addresses.  If you subscribe to a digest you only get one posting from the
listserver per day that contains all postings to the list during the
previous 24 hours.  It's a neat idea and one that I had not run across
previously.  [I must be subscribed to the wrong lists.]  In any event,
PaleoNet digests will be coming soon to a computer near you.  Watch this
space for further details.

Norm MacLeod


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Norman MacLeod
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N.MacLeod@uk.ac.nhm (Janet)

Address: Dept. of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum,
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