Re: emails innummerable

[David Sumbler]

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From: David Linn <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: emails innummerable
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:23:03 -0600

The digest sender looks not at the number of messages in the queue but
rather at the combined size of all of the messages in the queue.  To be
precise, the Mailman v2.1 List Admin manual says:

<quote>
Digest delivery is a way to bundle many articles together into one
package, which can be delivered once per day (if there were any posted
articles), or whenever the package is bigger than a specified limit.
Some users may prefer this style of delivery for higher traffic lists
since they will receive fewer messages.
</quote>

I can raise "the specified limit" and potentially reduce the number of
digests per day, but it will probably increase the number of large
messages *everyone* on the digest list receives.

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There seems to be a wide variation in the amount of material included
in digests which the quote does not account for.  Then again, perhaps
the size of attached images etc. is included in the calculation, which
could possibly explain it.

Either way, I personally don't have a problem with the size or
frequency of the digests.  

David