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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Reduce frequency of digest mailings to daily?

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:30:18 -0800
dbarry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> I apologize for cluttering the list with this, but  I did try sending
> this to the admin address without response.  In any case, I am thinking
> it might be of  multiple interest.
> 
> I am signed up for the digest verion of the mailing, but unlike most
> digests that are daily, this one is produced dozens of times daily.  
>  Is it possible to reduce the frequency in a way I have missed?  
> 
> If the archives at   http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users more
> felaxible to use, I would, however, there just isn't there.  Frankly, I
> wish there was a more "forum" like method of support, but I seem to
> recall seeing somewhere some real opposition to that.
> <http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users>
> 
> Again, sorry for the meta discussion.   Feel free to reply off the list
> to me directly if you feel it would be more appropriate.

The digest size threshold defaulted to 30KB, which is a small value for
the volume of messages the list gets. I increased it to 800.

For everyone who receives -users as a digest, would you rather get lots
of small digests, a few medium-sized ones, or a gigantic daily message?

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