From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 16:28:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA23600 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:28:03 -0700 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA23594 ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:27:59 -0700 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05202; Tue, 25 Apr 95 18:26:03 CDT From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9504252326.AA05202@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: List management: DIGEST TIME? To: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 18:26:02 -0500 (CDT) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, nate@trout.sri.mt.net, terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504252240.SAA03633@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> from "Gene Stark" at Apr 25, 95 06:40:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 849 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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