Hello, Paul. Before discovering the wonders of the "BMW of Linices" we call SuSE (around about v6.2) I used Redhat for a time (v4.1-5.2) and used to subscribe to their equivalent of this list. That was also a busy list, so I subscribed to the digest. Unfortunately, the digest came with all the messages included as attachments with an index number instead of subject line. As such, I had to open every message to see if it was relevant to me. This was very time consuming. Personally, I like this list a lot. It has input from an intelligent global subscriber list, it is frequented by SuSE staff members, and is a lively an interesting place to communicate. If I want to see all messages in a thread, I simply sort by the subject line. And as for the amount of messages, well, it is easy to clean out the messages once a month. I have learned a great deal from this list. Many times, questions are posed about problems I haven't encountered *yet*. I ask questions of my own, and answer others' questions when my own experience and knowledge allows me to. Your attitude to the list saddens me. It seems very selfish to only take from the list by asking your own questions and not following it to try to help out others. And then to have the gall to criticise the list because it is so active strikes me as being a bit much. Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: suse-linux-e-return-52525-stuart=yorkshirepudding.com@lists.suse.com [mailto:suse-linux-e-return-52525-stuart=yorkshirepudding.com@lists.suse .com]On Behalf Of Paul C.Leopardi Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 9:22 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com; suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com Subject: [SLE] This list is too busy: any improvements on the horizon? Hi, has anyone thought of ways to improve this list? For each of February and March there was an average of more than 100 messages a day on suse-linux-e This is too busy for me to stay subscribed. So I only subscribe when I ask a question and use the web site to see if anyone answers. But then asking a question takes 5 email messages: 1. Subscribe 2. Confirm subscribe 3. Ask question 4. Unsubscribe 5. Confirm unsubscribe I think I can get rid of one message by unsubscribing in the same email as asking the question, but I think that's about it. Has anyone though of : 1. moving this conversation to a newsgroup, 2. providing a daily digest 3. any other optimizations? Thanks -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq