Members of the egroup can choose between receiving individual messages or a Daily Digest.
Individual messages ('posts')
It is assumed that most members wish to receive individual messages as soon as they are posted. This is Yahoo's default condition. Most egroup members participate in this way.
The main advantage of receiving individual messages is that new posts can be read immediately. Some are time-critical, particularly those about job opportunities. For many members, it is also enjoyable to be able to participate in real time.
Daily Digest
The Daily Digest means that on a day when any emails are sent (and on some days there are no emails at all) members receive just one email with all that day's posts. All the posts can then be read or skimmed in one session.
The single daily email lists all the day's posts in chronological order. Each post includes any earlier messages appended below the new post. This means that Digest recipients may sometimes receive duplicates of a message, if they have not been deleted before the sender clicked the Reply button.
Members who prefer the Daily Digest format may email the moderator at guy@consterdine.com to request a change. Alternatively - if they have their own Yahoo ID and password - they can do it themselves on the website at finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/indepconsultants where there is an 'Edit membership' menu item near the top of the screen. This is also the way to change back to Individual Emails.
Set up your own subfolder
An alternative to the Daily Digest is to set up a subfolder in your email system to file the ICG emails, so they do not enter your main Inbox. For example, in Outlook Express use Tools - Message Rules - Mail, then click on the various links to set up a new rule so that anything with the word indepconsultants in the Subject line gets put into this folder. In Outlook, use Tools - Organise to set up the rule.
However be careful to avoid setting up two 'rules' for egroup posts. It has very occasionally happened that a member has suddenly started receiving two copies of each post. The cause has been that a rule has inadvertently been duplicated, resulting in egroup posts going into two folders.