The 12 or so messages generated yesterday came as an un-welcome
surprise to a couple of the initial list members.  Two issues
were brought up.  One is that a lot of mail (12 messages and 29 K
bytes) was deposited in their mailbox unexpectedly and in one
case ran his system of out mailbox message space.  The second
issue is that some people may prefer to have the mail arrive
in "digest" form -- that is all of the messages for one day would
arrive as a single large message.  This has the advantages that
it automatically groups messages of a related topic and in the
case of some of you who are reading mail at work it makes it
less offensive to management.  At most one "hobby" message
per day rather than a possibly unlimited number.  The downside
of a digest is that it introduces a delay of up to a day for
those who'd rather get the messages right away.

Eventually I hope to have a "real" listserver running here, probably
using the MajorDomo package.  In the meantime, I'm doing it by hand.
 Once I get something automatic installed each user can select digest or
non-digest mode.  In the meantime, I've instituted "digest mode"
for everybody.  I hope this will satisfy everyone for now.

If being on the list at all is unwelcome, please send mail to
the following address.  I personally read every message.

	automatic-music-request@foxtail.com

One last thing.  Some list servers appearantly allow for routing
messages to a single recipient on the list.  I have no way to
support such a feature at this time.  If you want to send private
mail to someone on the list, just use their return address from one
of the messages.  Please don't send private mail to the list.

Jody