On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Jane Lyle wrote: > I think I would be uncomfortable with the level of editing that you do, > too, Douglas. How do you find the time, even? (And do you really think > that all the time you spend on this makes a noticeable difference? Is it > time well spent?) Well, my digest subscribers think it is time well spent and *does* make a difference to them (I've a couple of thousand digest subscribers, all told). The vast majority of my editing is directed toward making the digests as easy to read as possible (have you ever looked at a typical LISTSERV DIGEST (NOMIME NOHTML), where everyone quotes everything in every reply?). A few yeas ago I did a survey of what the DIGEST subscribers wanted, and they told me. So, I started doing it. I'm in the midst of a followup survey now, and not a few subscribers say that if they couldn't get the list in the digest form as I provide it they wouldn't subscribe. That list had about 3,000 subscribers when I did the first survey, has about 4,250 now, 35 - 65 postings per day. I could edit the digests themselves, rather than the postings before distribution, but that would mean that the MAIL and archive versions of postings would differ from the DIGEST versions, and I don't want that. Douglas Winship [log in to unmask]