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From: fair@styx.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Digests (Actually using rn and digests)
Message-ID: <20677@styx.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-May-86 23:34:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 28 23:34:57 1986
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The reasons that I won't (as opposed to can't) break up the ARPANET
digests at ucbvax are twofold:

1. most of the digests that I gateway do not follow the RFC934 spec
	for digests.

2. most digests remove useful or even crucial header information which
	would be there, had the letter gone through normal SMTP
	channels as an individual entity.

This is to say that it would be an incredible mess to attempt automated
break up of all the digests at ucbvax.

The USENET represents the lion's share of the readership of all the
gatewayed digests, and on that basis I don't think it is unreasonable
to ask the moderators to accommodate us.

	Erik E. Fair	styx!fair	fair@lll-tis-b.arpa