Thanks, Pete! I think theere is a lot of truth in this; I know I've had to
wait long intervals while waiting for the servers to catch up with my
request . . . I've quoted your explanation to the listmembers so that they
can understand what is going on and why, as well as know that I will use
all available resources to solve "their" problem. Thanks, again.

                        Tom Trimble

At 07:53 AM 10/31/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>At 21:01 10/30/2000 Monday, Tom Trimble wrote:
>
> >*****Using the web list-management page, some have shown "mail" and some
> >have shown "digest"; it does appear that my changes are taking effect,
> >however. Some have said that no change in state was made as dig was in
> >effect,  but I've not had any further complaint.
>
>It is possible that this is a problem in "timing" i.e., when a
>subscription is changed from MAIL to DIGEST, some mail distributions may
>still be in-transit, though the notification of change of subscription
>options has already been read in the subscriber mailbox.  The subscriber
>perceives that the command did not take effect, even though notified,
>because of the inherent delays of the list distributions, perhaps using
>LISTSERV(R) Distribute algorithm and the nature of store n' forward mail
hosts.
>
>Pete Weiss @ Penn State