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From: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.notes
Subject: Re: Why digests are bad
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 11:16:08 EDT
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In article <10220@ucbvax.ARPA> fair@ucbvax.ARPA (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>Digested articles, of the form we see in fa.human-nets, mod.std.c,
>mod.unix and fa.telecom are bad for the USENET, because they don't
>allow the user to choose what he wants to read...
>
>Therefore, I propose that all moderators immediately stop digesting
>items for submission to mod.* groups.

AMEN! It is especially bad for people like me who are reading news
at 1200 baud.

I do think it is ok to group many items together if and only if they
are about the same topic.

Now if someone hacks rn to overcome Eric's objections and manages
to get all moderators (current and future) to agree to use whatever
method rn is setup to use that's another matter. Since I don't think
its very likely that this will happen, lets stop digesting.
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