Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 18:26:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, nate@trout.sri.mt.net, terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: List management: DIGEST TIME? Message-ID: <9504252326.AA05202@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199504252240.SAA03633@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> from "Gene Stark" at Apr 25, 95 06:40:14 pm
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> I'm not sure I see what the big deal is. I have all the mailing list > gated into newsgroups local to my machine, and I read the groups with > with normal news reading software. This keeps the clutter out of my > mailbox, and allows me to see at a glance what the messages are about. > > - Gene Hi Gene, Maybe it has something to do with the fact that (while you and I and others can certainly do this) not everybody wants to go to the effort to do this correctly. Ultimately, I'd bet it results in messages being "dropped" when somebody starts leaking articles, etc. and the history mechanism starts rejecting articles... ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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