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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: digests on USENET
Message-ID: <1989Aug14.140248.12480@talos.uucp>
Date: 14 Aug 89 14:02:48 GMT
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Brad Templeton writes:
 > I think that this [digest bursting] 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.

Indeed.  Why do digests appear at all on USENET?  There are good reasons
for using them with mailing lists, but none of them seem to apply to
USENET.