At 09:48 07/12/2002 Friday, Brian Stoughton wrote:
 >We're setting up a list which defaults to be sent as a digest on a daily
 >basis.  We'd like to hang on to responses and other items sent to the list,
 >appending new posts to the beginning of the list.  We would hang on to these
 >posts until we determine that the message is too long, at which time the
 >message would be edited to remove old posts.  I've tried configuring the
 >digest to be sent at a certain time (4th parameter of "digest" keyword in
 >list configuration), but set the 3rd parameter to "monthly".  This did not
 >work.  Any other ideas would be appreciated.

It's not a last-in first-out (LIFO) mechanism.

If that's what you want, I suggest manual processing e.g., create and
update a WELCOME file in the format that you want.  New subscribers will
automatically receive it.  IN FACT that's exactly what I do for our
campus Parking List.

YMMV & Good Luck.

Pete Weiss @ Penn State