Date:         Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:16:11 -0400
Reply-To:     Bill Glenn <idahobill@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bill Glenn <idahobill@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: emails

Tom Patterson wrote:

>I really appreciate the emails, and the input is great! I just have so
>many emails coming in from work-related things that it gets a bit
>overwhelming. But I will take the suggestions offered about changing the
>regularity of them. Glad to be a part of this group!

Tom,
The advice to switch to digest mode is valid, but you will soon learn that
there are a number of list members who don't seem to understand that the
ListServe program that manages the mailing list requires that messages be
sent in plain text to work properly.

When you receive the emails one-by-one, the ListServe just passes them
along and mostly they come through just fine. In Digest mode, the emails
are archived, and then periodically batched for the Digest email.  The
Listserve archive can't translate some of the non-plain-text messages, and
passes along all the formatting symbols in some of the other messages,
rendering them a nuisance to read.

Unfortunately, if the list members who send these non-plain-text messages
do not subscribe to digest mode, or never access the archives, they don't
see the gobbledygook they create.