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From: pwd@pid.UUCP (Philip W. Dalrymple)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Why digests are bad
Message-ID: <194@pid.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 05:15:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: pid.194
Posted: Wed Oct  2 05:15:40 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 07:25:37 EDT
References: <10220@ucbvax.ARPA> <764@vortex.UUCP> <6612@boring.UUCP> <1081@sdcsvax.UUCP> <198@graffiti.UUCP> <192@peregrine.UUCP>
Reply-To: pwd@pid.UUCP (Philip W. Dalrymple)
Organization: P & I Design, Inc. Atlanta
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Summary: 

In article <192@peregrine.UUCP> mike@peregrine.UUCP (Mike Wexler) writes:
>
>The people that like digests seem to like them because they are easily
>printed.  Why couldn't somebody that likes printing out articles create
>a program that would take a news group, a set of related articles(same
>subject or parent chaining) and create one article suitable for printing.
>This way people who are ready the articles on line can take advantage of
>there news software without have them hacked apart to understand digests.

I do this now by saving the articles (with rn s command) then just printing
the file. It works just fine.

-- 
Philip Dalrymple
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