Digest, individual email, etc.

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

There has been some confusion from folks new to Yahoo and chat lists as

to what their options are with email delivery. This is a busy list and

sometimes people freak out when they first join up.

Just to clarify, when you join, you have the option to choose

" individual emails " as the way you want to receive correspondence from

the Raw Dairy Yahoo chat list. This can be overwhelming at times if

you aren't prepared for it. Just be sure you don't mind 30 to 50

emails coming into your email inbox every day. Some like it that way,

some do not and are overwhelmed.

A second option you can choose is " Daily Digest " . This sends you one

email per day (usually--occasionally 2) and it contains all the emails

for that day within it. That way, your inbox does not overflow. This

is why we stress to TRIM your posts to only the relevant info you are

replying to, so the people on Digest don't have to read a book. This

is a suitable option for those who don't want to receive a lot of

email.

A third option is " Special Notices " . Not sure what that is, so I leave

it alone.

Lastly you can choose to " No email " . This is where it is up to you to

check emails at the group site.

To change your message delivery option, go to Members, where you see

the list of folks in the group. Type in your email address in the box

next to " Search members. " When you find your name, there is a drop

down box on that very line where you can choose your message delivery

option. Once you change it, just be aware that Yahoo can be VERY slow

and it may take a couple of days for you to stop receiving all those

overwhelming emails.

Thanks!

D.

co-moderator, raw dairy

[Guest guest]

wrote:

> A third option is " Special Notices " . Not sure what that is, so I leave

> it alone.

>

> Lastly you can choose to " No email " . This is where it is up to you to

> check emails at the group site.

I own a couple of other lists and I prefer my members stay set to Special

Notices (SN). With SN the list member doesn't get any email and can read

from the site when they have the time. But if the moderator needs to get

out a message to all list members (for whatever reason), then the SN goes

out to everyone, even folks who rarely read the list. Otherwise, if they

are set to no mail then the mods make a special announcement that *everyone*

needs to know about then they don't get the email and sometimes come back

complaining, " Why didn't you tell me about that? " At least then the mods

can say they sent out a SN and made their best effort to inform everyone.

For a group such as RawDairy I could see a great advantage to Special

Notices. One example off the top of my head. When the political

discussions were happening, some people unsubscribed from the list. If they

had gone to Special Notices and the RawDairy mods use SN as a general rule

for sending important messages to the list, then those members could have

gone to SN instead of unsubscribing or going to nomail. When the mods sent

out a SN that political discussions should be stopped immediately, then

those persons would see the SN and would know it was okay to go back to

receiving emails.

Or another example. If RawDairy decided to stop all off topics posts, and

say some members are on nomail but haven't read the list in several weeks

and then get active again and post off topic. But if they had been set to

receive Special Notices they would have received a SN that this was a new

rule for RawDairy.

I am fairly certain that only owners and moderators can use Special Notices.

I can think of one list in particular that I own, one of the Freecycle

lists. There is a moderators list that I am also on -- where we discuss

what should and shouldn't be allowed on the Freecycle groups. I can't keep

up with the hundreds of daily posts from the members, so I am set on Special

Notices. When the founder of Freecycle (Deron Beal) decides on a new rule or

wants to put a stop to an ongoing argument or issue the members are beating

when it's already dead, he uses the Special Notice and so I'm kept updated

on the new rules without having to put up with all the other messages

(although sometimes when he says stop bickering about some specific thing

then I'm curious as to what was going on but by the time he's said stop it

he's also deleted all the pertinent messages on the site so I can't satisfy

my curiosity, lol).

HTH,

Starlene

[Guest guest]

Thank you Starlene, for that explanation and clarification. I actually had a

thought as I

posted it that someone woul know what SN was for and that I would get an

explanation

about it. That's one thing I find amazing and love chat groups for--someone is

going to

have an explanation or solution for everything. It's great. Again, thank you!

D.

>

> > A third option is " Special Notices " . Not sure what that is, so I leave

> > it alone.

> >

> > Lastly you can choose to " No email " . This is where it is up to you to

> > check emails at the group site.

>

> I own a couple of other lists and I prefer my members stay set to Special

> Notices (SN). With SN the list member doesn't get any email and can read

> from the site when they have the time. But if the moderator needs to get

> out a message to all list members (for whatever reason), then the SN goes

> out to everyone, even folks who rarely read the list. Otherwise, if they

> are set to no mail then the mods make a special announcement that *everyone*

> needs to know about then they don't get the email and sometimes come back

> complaining, " Why didn't you tell me about that? " At least then the mods

> can say they sent out a SN and made their best effort to inform everyone.