durusmail: mems-talk: Re: Newsgroup? And this?
Re: Newsgroup? And this?
1999-02-27
Re: Newsgroup? And this?
Robert Okojie
1999-02-27
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



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