Folks, Can the webmaster blow a large bull-horn to alert us of an incoming deluge of mails so we can all braze ourselves to read them and go back to work? That is a global village! :-)))))) Robert. On Feb 25, 14:45, Ken Westra wrote: > Subject: Newsgroup? How about Daily Digest ? > I also agree that NewsGroups are not that useful (espeically if you are > busy). But I also feel swamped when a bunch of MEMS e-mail arrive. > > One solution is how the SPM (scanning probe microscopy) mailing list > works. You have two choices: 1) Receive all the mails individually (like > we are now) or 2) subscribe to the Digest. The digest is just all of the > emails for a day strung together with a list of the topic sentences at > the top. It is a great way to go thru stuff quickly. And I know its 2:03 > pm when my mail system 'pings' me. I think this digest is automatically > put together. The people at Digital Instruments run this mailing list > and would have all the details about it. > > Ken Westra > MicroFab at the University of Alberta > >-- End of excerpt from Ken Westra -- Robert S. Okojie, Ph.D. Senior Engineer Ford Microelectronics 9965 Federal Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80921-3698 Phone:(719)528-7727; Fax: (719)528-7529 "The frontier of knowledge has no boundary. Paradigms rise and fall"