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From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: digests in .newsrc [was: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader]
Message-ID: <674@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 8 Aug 89 06:58:18 GMT
References: <1836@papaya.bbn.com> <1150@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> <1050@unocss.UUCP> <402@laas.laas.fr> <2794@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <339@capmkt.COM> <377@texas.dk> <1989Aug7.172232.24974@tmsoft.uucp> <3962@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
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In article <3962@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>I think that this is a bell & whistle that really doesn't belong in the
>reader.  The breaking up of digests should really be done at the gateway,
>or by the inews program.

If anybody is really serious about this, I've got something which seems
to do the job quite well.  I use it to gateway the [TELECOM Digest] into
comp.dcom.telecom.  It does require some discipline on the part of the
digest editor to maintain format consistency (modulo what you can describe
in an RE).  Except for one special digest issue which didn't use the normal
headers, it seems to run without much intervention at all.
-- 
Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337
"I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom