All Synth DIY List members, please read

[WeAreAs1 at aol.com]

Hello list,

I have been participating on this list since late 1995, and it is, without a 
doubt, one of the most wonderful things that the Internet has ever brought 
into my life.  However, in the few last years, not only has list traffic 
increased, but my available time to devote to reading and participating has 
decreased.  

For some time now, I have wished that we could receive the list mail in a 
"daily digest" form.  For me, this would greatly simplify the process of 
reading, managing, and archiving the list messages.  I also participate in a 
few other mailing lists, most of which emanate from the egroups mailing list 
empire (such as the MOTM list, Tom G's EFM list, etc.).  I receive each of 
these in digest form, and it makes it very easy to quickly go through the 
messages and put them into a chronological archive for future reference.

For those who may not know, a daily digest is a single, large email that you 
receive once a day which contains all of the list's email messages for the 
preceding 24 hours.  When you subscribe to a list, you choose whether you 
wish to receive the messages as separate emails or as one daily digest.

I do like the other lists that I receive, but Synth-DIY is absolutely the 
most important list for me.  Unfortunately, it's also the one that is 
constantly clogging my mailbox as well as making me spend hours sorting, 
compiling, and archiving message threads.  It truly breaks my heart to say 
this, but my life has now come to a point where if I cannot receive the DIY 
mail in archive form, then I will be forced to quit the list.  Believe me, I 
have come to love this group of people, and I have even developed a certain 
emotional attachment to the list and its participants.  Having to walk away 
from the list would be a very difficulty and very, very unhappy experience.

I am quite convinced that I am not the only person on this list who would 
prefer to receive a digest.  In fact, I am guessing that there are quite a 
few of you who want this, and I'm sure that there also have been many who 
subscribed, then later unsubscribed after they realized that the volume of 
list mail was just too difficult to manage.

I am writing this to take a poll to find out how many of the current list 
members would, like me, prefer to receive a daily list digest, instead of a 
confusing, constant barrage of individual emails.  If you think you would 
prefer a digest, please take a moment to respond to this mail, either 
privately to me, or on the list.  I will compile the results of the poll and 
relay the information to Rick.  If the numbers are great enough, maybe he 
could be persuaded to make this important change to his list server.

I am extremely grateful for everything that Rick has done for the group, 
starting with the very creation of this amazing list.  For that, he is to be 
very highly praised.  I know that he probably has quite enough to do in his 
life without having to come up with special new software for adding a digest 
mode to his list server, but I hope he can seriously consider this request, 
and that he does not take this as criticism.  If any of you agree with me 
about this issue, please respond as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Michael Bacich