[NTLK] Please oh please stop assailing Grant with digest mode requests. Here's a tutorial how to do it yourself...

[Dennis Swaney]

Hmmm, if they are too illiterate/incompetent to read and follow such simple
instructions, how can they learn to use a Newton? ;-)

On Saturday, January 11, 2014, Forrest wrote:

> Yes...but even though Frank's instructions are simple and spot-on, we have
> forgotten the weak link in the process....
>
> Users must actually read (and then follow) them.
>
> **Sigh.**
>
> Thanks,
> --Forrest
>
> "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to
> lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the
> fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into
> it in the first place."
> --Douglas Adams
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Frank Gruendel <newtontalk at pda-soft.de<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > <flameshield>
> >
> > Folks, we currently have 935 non-digested NewtonTalk members.
> Optimistically
> > assuming that it would take Grant 30 seconds to put a subscriber back to
> > digest mode, it would take about 8 hours. Providing that Grant doesn't
> eat,
> > drink or use the bathroom during that time and doesn't take his hands off
> > the keyboard for even a second until this is finished.
> >
> > From the mails he's currently sending to the list, I'm getting the
> > impression that right now our list dad is doing his very best resolving
> more
> > important issues of mutual interest. In a nutshell, he's spending his
> > precious time on getting this list back to normal, which we all want.
> >
> > You DID manage to subscribe to NewtonTalk without Grant's help, didn't
> you?
> > Getting your account back to digest mode is just as easy. Promised. I
> just
> > did it. And I'm far from being a mailing list expert.
> >
> > Here's a step by step tutorial...
> >
> > 1) Direct the browser of your choice to
> > <http://lists.newtontalk.net/mailman/listinfo/newtontalk>
> >
> > 2) Scroll down to the section titled "NewtonTalk Subscribers"
> >
> > 3) Enter the E-Mail address you are using for NewtonTalk and your
> password.
> > In case you've forgotten your password: It is in the mail with the
> subject
> > line "Welcome to the "Newtontalk" mailing list" that you received a
> couple
> > of hours ago.
> >
> > 4) Click on "Visit Subscriber List".
> >
> > 5) In the disguised E-Mail address list, click on your E-Mail address.
> >
> > 6) Scroll down to the "Set Digest Mode" section.
> >
> > 7) Click on "On".
> >
> > 8) Scroll all the way down.
> >
> > 9) Click on "Submit my changes".
> >
> > That's it. Easy as pie. Takes but 30 seconds. Promised. Even your's truly
> > managed to figure out how to do it.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > -- Newton software and hardware at http://www.pda-soft.de
> >
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