No, my net access is almost always Live and Online, though my reading of, and writing to, the Digest isn't.
One feature of Henk's digestifier that I really miss is that a whole day's worth of messages would hit my mailbox in one batch at about 0200 Central time. This is just before I usually go to bed, and so I could read the digest and dream happy Gloranthan dreams. With Loren's daemon, the digests come sporadically throughout the day. A more disciplined person than I could wait until the appointed hour before reading the incoming mail, but I inevitably interrupt whatever Important Stuff I am doing at the time to read the latest from all you out there in netland.
Also, I suspect that Loren's immediate gratification feature leads to folks reading responses to articles they might otherwise have replied to and thinking, "Gee, I might have said something there, but Alex said pretty much what I would have." (Yeah, right.) Thus we miss some views that might otherwise have been aired. Note that I am not in favor of a dumb mail exploder, since the digest format does impose a sort of formal baseline that you just don't get from a constant stream of messages.
mailtool, the least bad of all X mailers, doesn't handle digests at all well
Don't get me started on this stupid UNIX braindamage. Does anyone else remeber the days when electronic mail Just Worked and mail user programs actually did useful things to help you do the things you wanted to do instead of sitting there and spitting at you?
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