Of course, the HBD is a digest, not a mail list ... but it occurs to me,
Digests also introduce a time-delay. You can have almost-realtime discussions with an immediate reflector. It is possible to have both. On many mailing lists (such as future-culture for example) you can "subscribe realtime" or "subscribe digest".
comes out once a day, it has ( usually ) a table of contents at the top,
I suggest that even if we don't have a digest, we could still have a "table of contents" at the end of the day.
and, if one received email telling where in the queue one's message was,
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