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Subject: Re: RN wishlist
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Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 13:12:58 EDT
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Summary: Remote mail reading problems with digests

In article <554@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> robert@jimi.UUCP (Robert Cray) writes:
>In article <2481@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (System Mangler) writes:
>>                  When it became a digest, I was presented with 1000
>>lines to read (without skipping) in one sitting, and if I wanted to
>>come back to any article, I had to go through the whole digest.
>
>So just use MH and do a burst -- this seems to work fairly well...
>					--robert

I suspect (though I don't know) that this tool suffers from the same problem
that most news-mungers have: it can't help those of us who read news kept on
a remote machine.  To save having the news stored on every machine in sight,
we keep news on one machine and use network connections to read it (with a
special version of rn).  Digests are doubly annoying in that case because we
a) have a significantly long pause... while a digest article is shot over to
our current machine; and b) once it gets there we (I, at least) have to paw
through it at 1200 baud.

I don't have any religious feelings one way or the other about the worthiness
of digests, I just ask that those considering solutions keep in mind those of
us who read mail remotely and slowly, and therefore would like a chance to
see the headers of individual items before screening them.

-Dean	(dean@violet.berkeley.edu)