SIGIA-L Mail Archives: re: SIGIA-L: want to make SIGIA-L even b
re: SIGIA-L: want to make SIGIA-L even better?
From: Steve Krug (skrug_at_mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Dec 01 2001 - 10:23:33 EST
Lou Rosenfeld wrote
>> And if you have some basic Perl skills and a general understanding of
>> MIME format,
Alas, no skills here. But like most people without skills, I *do* have a
suggestion to make SIGIA-L even better. Or a request, I guess. Is there
a setting in the software that manages SIGIA-L that specifies the
divider between messages in the digest?
I'm a fairly faithful reader of several listserv digests, and my one
problem with them is that it's very hard to tell where one message ends
and another begins, especially when messages start getting quoted
several layers deep. Right now, the divider is something like this
------------------------------
(Well, actually it's exactly like that, since I just pasted it from a
digest.) And I suppose it's some sort of industry standard (30 hyphens),
because I see it used in other digests. Or else they just use the same
software. The problem is a) it's not very visible, and b) it's not very
distinctive, since most threads end up including dividers from people's
email software and their SIGs that look similar.
If there *is* such a setting, and it could be set to something easy to
spot like
XXX XXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXX XXX
or
------------ END OF SIGIA-L DIGEST MESSAGE ------------
I'll bet it would save me and other digest readers an hour a year.
Which, come to think of it, would just about offset the total amount of
SIGIA-L readers' time I've taken up with this message. Sorry.
Steve
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