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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: RN wishlist
Message-ID: <18445@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 03:03:29 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 18 03:03:29 1987
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In article <522@omen.UUCP> caf@.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
>5.  The readnews feature I miss above all is intelligent handling of digests.

The proper way to handle digests is not to have them at all.
They break all the netnews readers we have. They also usually
have incorrect, or unusable return addresses in them, useful only to
the mailer at the site that constructed the digest in the first place.

Digests are a form of message batching that the USENET has never
needed, because we put our message batching in the netnews transport,
invisible to the users.

	DEATH to digests!

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu

	Chairman of the USENET Committee to Stamp Out Digests