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From: tedcrane@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ted Crane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages
Message-ID: <1239@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 17:01:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1239
Posted: Mon Jun  1 17:01:32 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 03:20:53 EDT
References: <8705302301.AA20507@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: tedcrane@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (Ted Crane)
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Organization: Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University
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In article <8705302301.AA20507@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> IC97@NTSUVAXA.BITNET (Kevin W. Mullet) writes:
>    format.  Personally, I prefer reading one or two lengthy
>    messages to wading through screen after screen of network
>    headers.

A vote against digests from this reader.  I can't stand the loss of
flexibility that comes with a digest.

You (and the original submitter) seem to have ignored the fact that the
digests often contained duplicate articles (same article in >1 digest, and
even the same article >1 times in the same digest!).  Plus, the digests
arrive out of sequence, you can't easily reply to a single message (how
much clutter can be kept out of the public postings when its easier to
use the "r" and "R" and reply privately!).  And so on.