R help - Jul 2009 - A question about digest mode

Good morning

I recently shifted to digest mode; I get the digest each day (sometimes two in a
day) and when I open the first file
it opens as a text file with a list of topics; but then it is hard to find the
right message.  In a list of 100 or so links,
counting to find link number 53 or whatever is painstaking and prone to error.

How do people find the right messages?

Thanks

Peter

Peter L. Flom, PhD
Statistical Consultant
www DOT peterflomconsulting DOT com

On 10/07/2009 9:13 AM, Peter Flom wrote:
> Good morning
> 
> I recently shifted to digest mode; I get the digest each day (sometimes two
in a day) and when I open the first file
> it opens as a text file with a list of topics; but then it is hard to find
the right message.  In a list of 100 or so links,
> counting to find link number 53 or whatever is painstaking and prone to
error.
> 
> How do people find the right messages?
I don't use the digest, I have a filter in Thunderbird to put all r-help 
(and r-devel) messages into their own folder.  There they can be 
threaded, or displayed in chronological order, or by author, or whatever.

I believe some mail clients have a method of splitting a digest into 
separate messages; you might want to use that.

Duncan Murdoch