Dear All,
Please note that if you are overcome with messages from this group, you can
change your access. It is possible to get a digest (or index) of emails sent
to you once a day (or week), this way you can keep in touch and submit your
own threads.
This page
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=fe-exams-network&A=1
is where you can change your subscription
The following help can be found ion the web at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SHOWTPL=SETTINGS-HELP&L=fe-exams-ne
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HELP
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Digest (traditional)
Digest (MIME format)
Digest (HTML format)
With a "digest" subscription, you receive larger messages (called "digests")
at regular intervals, usually once per day or once per week. These "digests"
are collections of individual list postings. Some lists are so active that
they produce several digests per day.
Digests are a good compromise between reading everything as it is posted and
feeling like the list is clogging your mailbox with a multitude of
individual postings.
There are three digest formats: a "traditional", text-only format; a MIME
format, which (with mail clients that understand MIME digests) "bursts" the
individual messages out of the digest so that you can read them separately;
and an HTML format, which requires an HTML mail clients.
Index (traditional)
Index (HTML format)
With an "index" subscription, you receive short "index" messages at regular
intervals, usually once per day or once per week. These "indexes" show you
what is being discussed on the list, without including the text of the
individual postings. For each posting, the date, the author's name and
address, the subject of the message and the number of lines is listed. You
can then download messages of interest from the server (the index contains
instructions on how to do that).
An index subscription is ideal if you have a slow connection and only read a
few hand-picked messages. The indexes are very short and you do not have to
worry about long download times. The drawback of course is that you need to
reconnect to order messages of interest from the server.
You can choose to have the index sent to you in either a traditional format
(plain text) or in HTML format with hyperlinks.
Stuart Ellis
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