[FWDLK] Setting your ForwardLook Subscription Options

[Dave Stragand <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I've gotten a lot of requests recently about how to set your mail to
"Digest".  Our daily mail volume through the list has jumped a bit
recently, and it's a bit much for some folks.

Fortunately, you don't have to leave the list because of this.  If you
find yourself facing too much Forward Look mail, you can turn on 'digest
mode' for your subscription.  This will give you one email a day (a
'digest') that contains all of the list mail for the day.  I use this
option on several mailing lists I'm on personally, and find it to be a
nice convenient way of handling the extra mail.

You can follow the directions below to set it yourself, or simply drop
me a line and I'll set it to digest for you.

-Dave


How To Set Your Subscription Options:
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Simply send a message to LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (not to the list!) with
the command

             SET L-ForwardLook [option1] [option2] [option3]

in the body of the message.  Don't send it to the mailing list -- send
it to LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Here's the options that may be set:

1)  MAIL/NOMAIL

Setting this option to Mail indicates that you will receive mail from
the list.  The format of the messages received is controlled by the
DIGEST/NODIGEST options (see below).

 NOMAIL:
          disable mail delivery.
 MAIL:
          restore mail delivery, without altering the digest delivery
setting

example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK MAIL
example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK NOMAIL


2)  DIGEST/NODIGEST

Causes the subscriber to receive one posting per digest cycle (typically
daily) rather than individual messages as they are processed by
LISTSERV. The MAIL/NOMAIL option controls whether messages should be
delivered.  Thus, switching to NOMAIL and back to MAIL does not destroy
the digest/normal delivery setting; it simply determines whether or not
LISTSERV should send any list mail to you. To provide as much
compatibility with older syntax as possible, the four options operate as
follows:

 DIGEST:
          enable digest delivery mode, enable mail delivery.
 NODIGEST:
          disable digest delivery mode, enable mail delivery as they are
sent to the list


example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK DIGEST
example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK NODIGEST


3) HTML
This option when used with the DIGEST option will give you a really nice
HTML formatted "point and click" digest format that allows you to see
the messages as you choose without having to keep scrolling through the
messages. It only works with HTML-enhanced mail programs, such as
Netscape, Outlook, Eudora (and possibly AOL).   It looks great -- I
really recommend it if you use the digest form.

  HTML:
          enable HTML mode
  NOHTML:
          disable HTML mode

example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK HTML
example: SET L-FORWARDLOOK NOHTML


Reminder: Do NOT send these commands to L-ForwardLook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
send them to LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-Dave