Whats the difference between MacGroup and MacGroup Digest?
Both have the same content. Subscribers to MacGroup get the messages one at a time, as they are sent. Subscribers to MacGroup Digest get all the messages since the previous digest as one long message. The digests are generated whenever the queued messages exceed 80K bytes, or at 5:15 p.m. daily, whichever comes first. The digested version of the list is still somewhat experimental. Because of the dozens of different combinations of character sets and formatting regularly used in e-mail, it’s no easy job to cleanly concatenate the messages when the digest is created. Many lists solve the problem by requiring all posters to adhere to a strict set of rules. We’re trying a different approach; we’re developing a program to parse the various formats into a common form. For this reason, you’ll occasionally see unexpected formatting problems on the digest as we experiment with different ways to mangle the messages posted to MacGroup into a form suitable for MacGroup Digest. You can help when y
