Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!bart From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.notes Subject: Re: Re: Re: Why digests are bad Message-ID: <1905@reed.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 03:22:57 EDT Article-I.D.: reed.1905 Posted: Tue Sep 17 03:22:57 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 03:47:53 EDT References: <10220@ucbvax.ARPA> <1067@sdcsvax.UUCP> <599@baylor.UUCP> Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 11 Xref: watmath net.news:3943 net.news.notes:7 > > posting, or bite the bullet and add the appropriate digest-reading > > logic to vnews and readnews? > > Readnews already has it. Are you volunteering to copy the logic to vnews? Our version of the vnews sources already has it also -- but it's '#ifdef'ed out because it's broken. It would thus be a matter of fixing it rather than writing it -- which may not be easier. I think the fix is non-trivial, anyway, based on my trivial inspection of the sources, Bart Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com