Hi Scott,
When people reply to digests, intending to speak only to one message therein but without deleting the rest, and then others chime in, the total length can get excessive. Two such messages recently were 1.7 and 2.3 megabytes, with plenty of unreadable character strings. This is because some email programs translate perfectly from other programs, while others fail to digest properly, and what they pass on can be hard to swallow. Slightly more technically, when prose is transformed into machine language, the obscure result is very long, certainly not a reader's digest. Though this is a very high volume list, there is no consistent tradition of editing digests down to exclude all but the most relevant text, but that would be the only real solution.
Paul
Scott wrote:
The result of old-fashioned diagramming's being ingrained in me gives
me the subject and verb immediately.
Scott Catledge
I deleted the 120 pages in this Special issue. Is everyone getting that
much garbage. Some messages are clear; most are contained in gibberish.
I am not referring to anyone’s expression as ‘gibberish’—just the printed
results.
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