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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Digests (Actually using rn and digests)
Message-ID: <1496@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-May-86 22:32:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 13 22:32:52 1986
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Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci.
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In reply to complaints about the digest problem, the ^G function was
suggested.  This doesn't really solve the problem, because it's only real
effect is to skip the undisplayed portion of a long digested article.  It
doesn't allow you to read the articles in whatever order you wish, and it
goes to the next subject it can find, even if that subject is displayed on
the current page (at least, it does the latter on our system).  It's
difficult to reply to a single digest article, or indeed, to do any action
on a single digest article; you have to edit out the parts that you don't
want.

I really don't understand why digests are an appropriate form for a
newsgroup anyway, especially one that is moderated.

C. Wingate