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Humberto Barreto <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:51:07 -0500
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Hi,

Given the recent increase in traffic on our list, you may be interested
in modifying your subscription preferences to receive messages in
DIGEST mode, which means you get all of the messages in a day
combined into a single message.

Should you wish to change your preferences, here's how:

- Go to https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/shoe.html
- Click ''Join or leave the list (or change settings)"
- Click 'login with your LISTSERV password' in the first paragraph.
- Enter your E-mail Address and password
     - If you don't know your password, click "get a new LISTSERV
password" and create one
- Click the "follow this link" link.
- Choose your subscription type (which is Regular by default) and
other options and click the "Update Options" button.


Here are the ways you can choose to receive messages on this list
(from LISTSERV's documentation):

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Digest (Traditional), Digest (MIME format), Digest (HTML format)
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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
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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)
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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
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the number of lines is listed. You can then download messages of
interest from the server (the index contains instructions on how to do
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An index subscription is ideal if you have a slow connection and only
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not have to worry about long download times. The drawback of course is
that you need to reconnect to retrieve 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.
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If you have problems, please let me know and I will help you.

Thanks to Avi Cohen for suggesting that this would be of interest to
our subscribers.

-- 
Humberto Barreto
www.depauw.edu/learn/microexcel

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